The land reveals itself in unexpected ways. It is like an animal observing you, but which you have not yet seen. My paintings are about the Spirit of the Place. I draw the changing landscape on site.  There is a moment when a dynamic reveals itself and becomes the guiding force for my paintings.

I began drawing the landscape in Petaluma, CA, in 1978. A series of drawings were made in the moonlight. Working in the dark helped eliminate details from the subject and focus on the core. I traveled to Iceland to draw. There I became interested in geology, movements in the earth, the forming and the erosion, the weather, the water, and the vegetation. On three visits to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. I completed a series of pastel drawings and paintings, 1995-2003. In 2000, I traveled to the Australian Northern Territories, which inspired paintings: Landforms, Termite Mounds, Bottle Trees and Milkyway-Coralbay.