I learn best by being shown than told how, and my art is an extension of this, influenced by the experiences and people I've met more than by specific artists or movements. What matters most is how I follow through with my ideas, and how alive they keep me in the studio. Most importantly, I'm inspired by the abundant riches of the world around me, which offers an infinite source of beauty and detail from which to draw from. My work is in response to feeling this complex beauty.

I have always felt humbled by the raw beauty of nature. I grew up with a strong work ethic working close to the land and appreciating the silence of the Cascade Mountain foothills of Washington State. This has affected the vision for my paintings and my artistic process. I explore the many facets of my immediate environment(s) to express a spirit of a place that is not only in the landscape and its details but also in me. I find myself interested in the interconnecting details, patterning and self organizing systems in nature and the work of man around us, and want to share it through my work. Lines and line quality, branching systems, found organic ‘silver dollars’ collected from my walks, and tally-like oblong circular patterns that morph in and out of space are reoccurring themes in my work.

I seek to understand any subject from all angles and intervals in time to draw out the internal relationships and eternal associations. Most importantly, showing others what is right in front of them from my perspective of overlap and interconnections.

Sometimes I complete a painting in a day. Sometimes a month. And some paintings span over 7 years. I have tried over the years to keep documentation of my process and for some paintings I have succeeded in doing so.

Process is a huge part of my work and my love for what I do. Impermanence is something I understand and it is often hard for me to complete a work because I don't see anything as ever being complete. Our whole lives, the whole world is in constant process.