I paint about memory and longing for nature.

I lived for ten years in a dark New York City apartment where I could only see the sky from one of the windows, if I angled just right. In summer, I escaped to the countryside: a rural paradise of hay fields criss-crossing the mountainside under a sky filled with boulder-like cumulus clouds and icy streams choked with leaping trout. I sketched and photographed, in winter painting my sun-soaked memories in room facing a brick wall.

Later I explored atmospheric effects of the rising mist at dawn. Daily I went to the lake searching for color in the sunset that would reflect harmonic convergence. But a scrim of trees partially hid the lake...Its entirety I could only imagine. The sublime lay just beyond my grasp.

I left the dark apartment. And in 2002, I turned my attention to also making finished paintings on site. I included buildings as subjects and my vision continues to grow happily en plein air.