"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes” -M. Proust

The inspiration for my most recent work comes from our Maine kitchen, and also from locations I have observed during walks in the woods along the rivers in mid-coast Maine. My ideas begin in the natural world, but once a work is under way, the quality of the paint itself on the flat surface takes on a life of its own. Rather than seeking to faithfully reproduce a scene, I am attempting to open my senses to an environment. Space, color and surface tension evolve as I work. I am as interested in the two-dimensional aspects of an image as in the sense of depth created by the image.

Not long ago I acquired a digital camera and have begun to use it to take pictures both inside and outside my home. Later, I manipulate the images on my computer. It has been liberating to be able to construct a painting before ever putting brush to canvas. The results are a stylistic departure from my previous work. The large format of some of the landscape paintings is an attempt to provide an 'environment' into which the viewer can enter.