Man in nature...the nature in man. 

I paint both portraits and landscape. Figurative and abstract. Sometimes melded into the same painting.  I paint from life, photography and memory. I am inspired by the age-old dialog between the duality of art and science, the dichotomy of realism and abstraction and the intersection of technology and craftsmanship. I describe my work process as 'spontaneous contrivity'. Being in that flow, as the artist Fritz Scholder expressed, "Is walking that tightrope between accident and discipline."

I find this juxtopositioning, often molded into the same painting, in narrative and in technique..., a fascinating and compelling enigma to explore...and as in life, almost always a contradiction.