I work from direct observation using oil paint on panel, canvas, or paper. The work has varied from series of paintings about the container as a metaphor (specifically Ziploc bags or glass), to the depiction of a specific surface alone (and its relationship with the container and skin), to paintings of the landscape.

I make paintings that are about perception - images that exist between representation and material - pictures that call attention to the act of seeing. I work to create an illusion while retaining the integrity of my materials.

Nothing can be more poetic or abstract then what we actually see. Whether depicting objects, surfaces or a sun-dappled wood, my images talk about our being creaturely in the world rather than semantically in the world. I believe in a transcendental experience with nature in the landscape, where man and nature are one, not in conflict. The landscapes become icons of that unified force.

I am interested in images that blur the line between the intimate and the social. While I appreciate the categories of still life and landscape for their history, I have some quarrels with them. I seek to imbue them with a new level of meaning: to ask them to contain the personal.