I live on the Big Sur Coast of California. This environment informs my work. I observe cycles of growth, decay, and regeneration on a grand scale. As is everyone who comes here, I am seduced by what I see, but I am also probing for the inner logic of the natural world, the blueprint that lies beneath the surface of what I observe. My imagery is abstracted landscape. Not complying to a strict recreation of the visual field that is before me, abstraction allows me the freedom to reinterpret the subject matter as I experience it, describing not the object, but the effect it produces. I give special importance to shape, motion, color, and especially light. I am interested in evoking what I experience through all of my senses. With that in mind I listen, sketch, smell, draw, paint and contemplate what I experience while I am present in this landscape. As I work I pay attention to the paint itself, as well as the layered surface of each piece. I exploit chance occurrences of the painting process in an effort to let each piece speak for itself. I look for contrasts that do battle and quit working when the opposing elements reach their dynamic equilibrium.