Discovering landscapes during travel and being surrounded by nature at home have become some of the most engaging subjects for me as an artist. In recent work, my work is inspired by tactility of place. The subject can range from the last but of twilight forcing its way through the woods, to the way personal items of another culture hang on a decaying wall. 'm drawn to found objects within these specific places which I bring back to my studio to help me recreate a scene primarily from sense memory, intuition and playing around with the materials themselves. My aim is to distill the strongest impression I had during the moment of experience into an abstract symbol or symbols representing for me the "whole".

Rather than rendering form, the work is deliberately kept within the two-dimentional picture plane. Instead my concern has been for mood and light qualities, surface texture, value in color contrasts, and how paint and paper come together. I'm working with a variety of collage elements and oil or acrylic on canvas.