As an artist, I strive to create art that is a unique expression of who I am, and what I know and love. My art is my passion. The challenging aspect of painting is taking a familiar scene and creating my own personal vision of it. I have a sense of awe in everything around me, finding it absolutely enchanting and seek to show it in my work. I feel nature is our greatest teacher. Over the years I have created a visual memory for the landscape. In my painting I just mentally hiked the scene, creating rocks and trees, hills and sky as I went. It's like creating your own world in a way. The painting is a composite, but it still stays true to the actual landscape.

I consider my paintings to be celebrations on canvas. I hope my art will resonate in the observers' memory so that the process of recollection becomes a dialogue with the image. They are a tribute to the beautiful world in which we live. Through my unique works of art, I bring joy to the homes and lives of collectors all over the country. The vast differences in the landscapes from state to state have stayed in my memories over the years. I have had experiences in various occupations even though in my heart and mind I was craving to make art. I did many types of art. I even considered my gardening and lawn mowing an artistic endeavor. I soaked in everything I could see and planned how this piece of art could live in the world with the rest of us.

I create art to bring home the memories of what I saw. Not a picture duplicating what I saw but the memories evoked by what I saw. I have my own artistic purpose and personal vision. I have stopped painting for everyone else and now paint for myself.That is not to say I am not conscious of my viewer's wants and needs but staying on my own path has given my art even more dynamics.

I am now incredibly blessed to be able to see the world through the eyes of an artist  I feel the passion to create that beauty with paint and pass it on. Capturing the magnificence of the world in my obsession. I must paint be it a scene or a still life or a macro view of one of God's creations.

My goal is to be a self supporting artist. I am self taught (other than workshops) painter of impressionistic realism. I paint landscapes, as well as still life. I paint to bring the viewer into the picture from a perspective of a pleasant memory or of a desire to be where the picture takes them.  

I paint and seek to enhance my talents with new tools and techniques. To do this I have taken classes and workshops, and visit art museums and galleries. When I am not attending events I am in my studio loosing myself in my latest creation. When I start a painting, I quiet the clamoring in my head.

Whether the painting is a babbling brook, quaking aspens reaching for the heavens, a trail leading through the sun dappled forest or the juiciness of a strawberry I want the person looking at the painting to have a tremendous need to have it with them.

I paint everyday, mostly all day. I have devoted my life exclusively to art for the past 8 years. I have discovered in this time of turmoil in the world with sorrow and confusion that it is my aspiration to present beauty and good feelings that I can create with my own hands. I see in my heart how it would feel of I ruled the world and how wonderful it would be and that is the goal I have for my artwork. I want to be able to produce painting after painting to make this a more pleasant place to live. I also want to be able to physically and monetarily help the community in need.

My belief in myself as an artist hinges on my ability to create so I put my creative time and resources ahead of all other obligations.