For the last three years I have been focused on painting trees. Approximately forty tree paintings now fill my studio. Why trees? After surgery to correct my scoliosis three years ago I realized that trees are not only archeypal symbols of life but they are also survivors…like me. I admire their individuality. I am awed by the beauty of their leaves and bark.  I am enraptured by the sculptural beauty of twisted dead tree trunks. I feel their vulnerability and their strength.

I have mounted these oil paintings on rough birch panels, cull wood, actually, directly from the lumber mill. It is important to me for the viewer to see the tree painting in this visceral context.

Painting feeds my soul, and the forests of Northern New Mexico have been my spiritual renewal place for over twenty years. I am restored and inspired by the landscape. The trees depicted in these paintings inhabit not only Northern New Mexico, but also Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and the Tuscany region of Italy.

Sunrises and sunsets, on the border of night and day.

Endings and new beginnings.

I have long been fascinated with repeated shapes in nature and the fact that our man-made world consciously and unconsciously echoes these shapes. I find these repetitions to be rhythmic and lyrical and they are evidence to me of harmony in the world.

This series of landscape paintings focuses on repeated horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines and shapes. Most of my subject matter comes from northern New Mexico where I live and paint in summer. A few paintings come from my travels through southeast and west Texas.