I live and work in the Hudson Valley.

 

I find deep connections in the natural environment:    meadows, rivers, ponds, mountains, wetlands, farmland, gardens, and forests.

 

Painting an imagined vision from a perceived experience,  I look for underlying geometry and order amid nature’s chaos.

 

I interpret my actual and imagined atmospheric encounters with nature using charcoal, graphite, oil sticks

and aluminum paint while layering oils.

 

Draw/erase.  Paint/scrape.  A ghost remains.  With these traces I move the work forward linking what I envision with what I see.  Many amends to the surface are involved.  The finish is not attained without a struggle.