Artist’s Statement

An aesthetic influence for me has been with the Imagist School of Chicago, however my work has taken its own path into uncharted territory. My oil paintings are a kind of Kabuki of forms, often having a totemic, iconic expression. An unlikely, but inevitable intersection of elements from primitive nature and the human presence, toward a philosophical whole.
Some years spent in Zen monastic communities and solitary retreats in the wilderness have lent a certain feeling of intimacy with nature, and the paintings have been marked by these experiences. Artist friends have commented on the humor and inventiveness of the way things are put together, pointing to the pure ideas behind resolved work.