Cycles & Patterns    oil on panel   48" x 70"

I paint at the boundary between realism and abstraction, where a reflection is as much abstract shape as light against surface.

My interest in the formal and abstract qualities of composition and the tensions between color and edge, drive the paintings to transcend the confines of regional and cultural documentation and address more a sense of human vision.

Focusing on oftentimes banal imagery, the paintings speak to the tensions – economic, social and spiritual – of our post-industrial world; if the forms we construct and the terrain we inhabit mirror our notions of self, then these images are explorations of our solitude, history and interconnection.

In subject matter and through rhythmic compositions and use of form and color, my paintings document and celebrate the choreography of our existence.