In my paintings I honor the landscape as itself and as a metaphor.

Mountains become places of ascension, inwardness and grace. Historically in both spirituality and mythology, mountain imagery is seen as dark terrain, feral, deserted, holy and stripped of self. Untamed and wild landscape, in all it’s apathy, elicits a primal pull to enter it, to be joined with it, and to know it intimately, Seeking the solace of empty places, I create intensely personal portraits of quiet, meditative spaces that encourage contemplation and investigation of self, sublimity and the divine.