Artist Statement: My paintings are a celebration of the mystery of nature and the promise and complexity of life that exists in nature.  Whether I’m working on a landscape, a bird, or a figure, the work is about the experience of light and shadow, color and texture, the play between the seen and the unseen, between memory and imagination.  My visual language has evolved over the years but I seem to have settled on something that combines my love of abstraction with contemporary realism