Traveling back and forth across America, I observed the changes in landscape and architecture from region to region. Places have always punctuated my experience and my process as a maker. My lyrical Impressionist imagery is focused on boundaries and divisions, manmade and natural, such as rivers, bridges, fences, roads and borders. My painterly methods include stain painting and monoprinting. I use a restricted palette, boiled down to the minimal essence of colors in a location.
My work allows me to explore the environment at a particular moment and to freeze the forms that represent that moment in time, observing the degradation of land, gentrification, decline, developments and demolitions. My urbanscapes are inspired by the enigmatic, devoid of human activity, reflecting on our contemporary estrangement brought about by dormitory style suburbs and commuter cities. The process is hunting and gathering images, searching for an experience, or proof of experiences past.
These landscapes are deliberately ambiguous, allowing the viewer to call up their own memories of familiar forms. My intention is to give the viewer a sense of déjà vu, and mystification over how to reconcile befuddling familiarity. Painting requires that natural pigments are mined from the earth. Cobalt and iron oxides are extracted to the great detriment of the landscape, then processed, heated and altered in a sumptuous colorful ooze, then packaged in tubes and sold to the artist, to render the image of the landscape, drawing a connection between creation, degradation and the sublime.

Remembering Manchester
Painted while in residence at the Contemporary Artist Center Woodside in Troy, NY.
2014
Acrylic on Canvas.
60"x54" Acrylic on Canvas

Every Trestle CSX Richmond
Old Norfolk and Southern Trestle along the Kanawha Canal, Richmond, VA
Painted while in residence at the Art Students League of New York, Vytlacil, Sparkill, NY.
2015
Acrylic on Linen
32x36

George Washington Bridge
George Washington Bridge, Manhattan, NYC
Painted while in residence at the Art Students League of New York, Vytlacil, Sparkill, NY.
2015
Monoprint, Oil on Paper
14x18

Whitestone Bronx
Whitestone Bridge, Bronx, NY
Painted while in residence at the Art Students League of New York, Vytlacil, Sparkill, NY.
2015
Monoprint, Oil on Paper
14x18

Richmond Frankly
Shockoe Bottom, Kanawha Canal, Richmond, Virginia
2010
Acrylic, Raw Canvas
24"x36"

Historical Perspective
View from Great Shiplock on the Kanawha Canal, Richmond, VA
Acrylic, Raw Canvas
2010
30"x40"

Uncertain History
Tobacco Row, Shockoe Bottom, Warehouses Erased
Painted while in residence at the Contemporary Artist Center Woodside in Troy, NY.
Acrylic on Canvas
2014
16"x22"

Blue Ridge to Green Mountain
Accumulated images from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Richmond, points north on I-95, Troy, NY and Brattleboro, VT.
Photocollage
2014
11"x14"

Pallisades to Manhattan
Rockefeller Overlook, Palisades Parkway
Painted while in residence at the Art Students League of New York, Vytlacil, Sparkill, NY.
Acrylic on Linen
2015
32"x36"

Terrain Erased
Amalgam of images from Richmond, Virginia, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and back alleys of Troy, NY.
Painted while in residence at the Contemporary Artist Center Woodside in Troy, NY. February 2014
Ink, Pastel and Acrylic on Jute
2014
32"x32"

Prince Edward Nottoway Border
Border Prince Edward Country, Nottoway County, Virginia
Painted while in residence at the Art Students League of New York, Vytlacil, Sparkill, NY.
Monoprint
Oil on Paper
2015
18"x24"

Cloudy Afternoon Piermont Marsh
Piermont Marsh, Piermont, NY
Painted while in residence at the Art Students League of New York, Vytlacil, Sparkill, NY.
Monoprint
Oil on Paper
2015
14"x18"