The situations presented in my paintings are diagrammatic renderings of engineered environments. I like to pose a fictional view of the ever-changing state of nature and its various forms of adaptation. Selected elements from the natural world persist within the architecture of limitation and categorization. Trees, plants and mushrooms flourish in crystalline formations in the face of bleak prospects. Walls block the growth of would be forests. I imagine the sub-structure of a landscape exposed and visible to reveal networks of hidden layers. Uncovered are the ruins of a constructed world contaminated by it’s own byproducts. Visual examinations of runaway development, poor urban planning and stockpiles of waste provide footing for new structures. My work attempts to view a compression of the past and future in a graphic, exploded space.

Recent paintings focus on conglomerate forms or multiple elements inhabiting a centralized land mass. These isolated grounds are presented in states of disintegration and transformation. Deteriorating masses are suspended and submerged, awaiting reclamation.

I develop imagery from many photo-based sources that inform my study of the landscape. Vintage biology textbooks and books from the early ecology movement often provide material that translates well into an abstract language. I distill selections by hand drawing contours and adding them to a growing library of reference. The discovery found in the process of painting compliments this source gathering, allowing an intuitive approach to my craft.