About The Artist

I am a landscape painter living in and maintaining my studio in southern California.
My current oil paintings of colorful, engaging, but otherwise overlooked and isolated flora are magnified to reveal their importance. My Subject matter is discovered from remote to obvious locations across the country. Coming from an orientation in abstraction, my choice to work in a close focus hyper-realistic style remains ever mindful of the abstraction that exists in nature.
These paintings examine mark making, and the nuances of color and light in nature. This process involves the close observation of many aspects of landscape and the amplification of these images. They magnify a moment in time, and in nature, when plants are at the peak of their reproductive cycle and are fully asserting their seductive beauty/perfection/ splendor/ripeness. The focus has been on select blooms to show the importance of their smallest components.