Growing up in Michigan on the Great Lakes, the natural world had a significant influence on my development. As a teenager I spent many days sitting on the shores of Lake Erie and watching the horizon, especially that space where the air touches the water. This visual became the background for daydreaming about my future. “Who did I want to be? Where would I go? What would I do? What would the world be like there?”. It was in this depth of cloud, water, land, and air that I would find myself and more importantly find dreams of who I would become.

My paintings are only roughly planned before I start, I know the palette of colors I’m using and an idea of an emotion I want to evoke. Sometimes that feeling changes as the painting evolves and takes me somewhere else. I use a combination of thick viscous paint worked with a palette knife with washes applied with house painting brushes. This combination allows me to work the paint in different ways in between layers.