The paintings are always rooted in something specific. They often start with my fascination of a certain image from the natural world: the crooked line of a particular branch, the strong contrast of lights as a storm approaches from across the sea, the deepening color in the alley outside my studio window during evening in the winter.
Many of these paintings were painted 'en plein air', that is, on site in the landscape. Others (the larger ones) were created in the studio by using the smaller field studies as reference. And while the paintings always maintain their ties to their initial natural inspirations, they also develop into explorations of formal relationships: of shapes, value, colors, lines, edges, and textures.
I am inspired by the profound and infinite beauty in the natural world. I am inspired by the concrete experiences of what materials are and can do. In my work, I am interested in the convergence of the profound and the concrete.