am attracted to the natural and manmade geometry in landscapes. By juxtaposing the organic cloud formations in skies with structural gridlike ground planes, I present a dissonance of opposites bridged by saturated light and color.

I would like viewers to imagine themselves traveling through the invented spaces in my paintings.

To borrow from Italo Calvino, my paintings depict "Invisible Cities," not literal, but mental experiential memories, stained in my mind and revealed through the medium of paint. I am indebted
to the seventeenth century landscape painters, but my work is tempered by the modernist developments of the twentieth century that presented a new approach to

the pictorial picture plane.

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