Foremost I love to paint and have been doing so since I was fifteen. Painting helps me ground my experiences. I look for the unusual in the landscape wherever I am. Ultimately, in the studio, I draw from memory those things that defined a place for me and I try to create a painting that says something about the experience and the place. Sometimes a painting is totally invented from a variety of images, from memory and from photos. But always the goal is to create an image that is dynamic and has a presence of its own.