From the Artist's Statement...

"My works’ focus is dictated by place, and the work shown in this sampling provides evidence of my continuing search for structure in landscape painting. Working outdoors assures me of two things: absolute concentration, and a sense of urgency which causes me to distill the land to irreducible forms."

"I realized I was painting internalized subjects -- blissful or terrifying, in deepest memory of first emotions – and that I had always attempted to recreate these primal motifs in new places, no matter the continent or square foot upon which I had placed an easel. The more exotic the jolt of the unfamiliar, the more authentic and direct the access to the mental furniture of unconscious visual memory, and the higher the voltage of my response on canvas. Each new virgin territory I visit summons to the surface richer, more personal and irreducible forms stored in pre-verbal memories of first-sense impressions – the points of an inner compass I now trust most."
                                                      Continued...