My work has always been shaped by my explorations of the natural world. Much of my earlier painting, came from my work for over a decade trapping, banding, measuring, and releasing hawks in California to study their migration patterns. My involvement in this study was born out of many strange and intense encounters with owls and hawks that I had been having for years. My work was also influenced by week or longer, completely solitary hikes that I took far into the wilderness of the high Sierra, traveling miles off marked trails, camping and painting alone above ten-thousand feet (something I have always done).


My experience working in and studying the environment from both a scientific (naturalist) and personal orientation has shaped the way I consider (and construct) my world, my work. I am interested in the tension and duality between our romantic conceptions of nature and the reality of the potential environmental calamities we are facing. I seek to embody this tension in my work by the use of technology (video that I shoot) to derive image sources, or in recent work (the Wanderungen series) by juxtaposing images. 


My recent work is inspired by my return to the Northeast after living for twenty years in Northern California. It varies from smaller (8 x 10 inches), more abstract pieces to larger (80 x 72 inches) paintings. I derive the images in these paintings through different methods, including digital processes that involve “capturing” images from video footage that I shoot while out and about, wandering, exploring. 


I live in my relationship to the land, environment, material, and place. 


I work for sense of place, knowing a place intimately, finding “home”. 


Painting is for me a physical and even a spiritual exploration. It is improvisatory, often even revelatory.