Early childhood family travels from Indiana to the West brought me face-to-face with dramatic landscapes in formations and colors that amazed me.

"I couldn't believe my eyes! Rusty orange cliffs and lavender dirt!"

The amazing landscapes and their primeval processes were home to ancient cultures whose ruins added to the mystery and wonder. All of this has had a profound and lasting influence on my art. In the studio, intuitive decisions about lines, shapes, and colors come from that vast subconscious resource of travel in the West. My media are layered, scrubbed, and overpainted just as sedimentary rocks were layered and eroded by ancient oceans and scoured into fantastic forms.

Remembered images of canyon walls and ancient ruins inspire my abstract composition.