I’m an oil painter from the Genesee Valley and Finger Lakes Region of western New York state.

My first attempt at painting outside on location, was a three-hour, unmitigated disaster. But 15 minutes in and I was hooked.

And I’ve been on a Plien Air adventure ever since.

In an effort to create interesting marks, I’ve collected a wide variety of tools to fling paint and pigments around. Employing a wide variety of tools, beyond traditional brushes, bends my style towards Abstracted Realism.

I use familiar settings and memories as jumping off points to explore the places and history of my known universe deeper and farther.

I am influenced by a lifetime of fresh-air adventures, exploring the world around me, and am often drawn back to capture places of my youth before they are lost to both time and progress.

I am drawn to capturing scenes which often display both the organic, unrestrained growth of nature, set into context by the straight lines of man-made intrusions into these spaces … or of natures efforts to reclaim them from us.

When forced into the studio I look for subjects with a history too.

It’s the history of the place or object I aim to capture and share with you.