As a landscape painter I take my own photographs for reference.  However, in 2000, photography became an end in itself. Now, I paint on canvas as well as make archival inkjet prints.

My canvases are usually large visceral responses to monumental environments. My photographs have a more intimate reading, capturing unconventional views of natural spaces, with detailed structures. Both mediums formally locate in the balance between abstraction and representation. While they continue to celebrate the complexities and mystic beauty of nature, I have now abandoned this purely aesthetic impulse.

Politics of Snow is currently an on-going series where my practice as a painter serves to document the rapidity of change in our natural icons such as the Matterhorn, as well as the shrinking of glaciers in America and Iceland. In a series of diptychs of historical visual comparisons – I am contrasting past and present situations of glacial activity.

I want to seduce the viewer with my painting of the landscape and then subtly engage them in contemplating its survival.  Beauty and desolation, life and death all conflate for me at this moment in time as the concept of mortality personally and globally dominate my creative impulse.