As a visual artist my quest is to explore the mystery of connecting what I observe, feel, and reflect upon into my personal artistic expression.

I am intrigued about tensions that co-exist in life, nature, and the creative process. This tension works its way into the art making process as I begin each painting with a systematic process that gives way to spontaneous mark-making resulting in unrepeatable expressions that reference the beauty of nature - every stroke and response to that stroke flows from a deeper place. I love that place!

I have come to accept that I need this tension as it leads me to more satisfying work. The final painting often informs the next with a tendency to increasing abstraction. I feel this creates a poetic balance between abstraction and expressionism. 

A love for experimenting, I observe nature and ask myself how I can capture certain colours, or light that in the moment created a sense of awe and wonder.  Whether inspired by delicate textures within flowers, cerulean prairie skies, glorious autumn leaves, or reflected light on water, a mysterious alchemy takes place where an artistic expression has formed in my mind, and I have the good work of getting it out.

This process of discovery and observation of the work in progress provides yet another level of joy in my art making. I invite my viewer to art that awakens their imagination and a feeling of wonder for the beauty of nature. 
Art can do that.