I have always been fascinated by how color changes with light conditions and the position of the sun. My work is largely concerned with changing light and nuance of color, and I find that as I paint I am aware of trying to replicate the feelings that I experience at a certain time of day; the slanting reddish orange light of a late autumn afternoon, for instance, or the cool yellow pearl sheen of an imminent dawn. Fogs and haze, dawn and dusk are my wonder and passion. I am not interested in making a statement. I am primarily a sensualist, and enjoy the sensations both real and internal that are generated by a sense of time and place, and I wish to try to create works that allow myself and others to experience those sensations upon viewing them. I appreciate the aloneness in my subjects, and try to convey individual experience apart from society, whether through contemplation of a meaningful object or a melancholy and beautiful landscape. I feel my work is a success if it reminds a viewer of a time or place than has planted a memory in them, and through my work I hope to allow them to revisit it.

Influences & Idols: Whistler; Sargent; Inness; Turner; Tryon; Wyeth & John Whalley.