I have always felt an extraordinary beauty in the physical world, 
and it is the experience of beauty that my work conveys. My work 
explores how this experience is communicated, and how artwork 
fosters that experience. While my work utilizes many aspects of 
the landscape tradition, I also interpret landscape metaphorically, 
merging the real with metaphysical reality, creating a lush, 
quiet place for viewers. I use light as a vibrant, velvety quality 
that glows, pulses and breathes with the sentient characteristics 
of sunlight, shadow, the light of snow or rain. Paint is applied 
in thin washes and glazes that build up over time, creating 
surfaces that engage through a density of light, subtle textures 
and color. In the same way that the poetic form prepares a reader 
to consider condensed language in special ways, the circular format 
of my work prepares viewers for a consideration of essence. The 
experience of beauty is essentially a spiritual experience – it 
expands our awareness, uniting sensual, emotional, intellectual 
and psychic perceptions.