Painting is for me a visual conversation between myself and my materials.  While I may start out with a reference image in mind as a point of departure, pretty soon the painting takes a life of its own.

I want this conversation to continue for the viewer, so I try to produce work that is incomplete and open.  I want the viewer to find new and fresh things in the work and to find new sources of delight in what I have produced.

I've messed around with landscape and abstract art for most of my life, and have moved towards an open and gestural approach to landscape that emphasizes the illusiveness of pictoral reality.

I studied at the University of Calgary and the Alberta College of Art and Design. I am a member of Artpoint Gallery and Studios Society in Calgary (see our website at www.artpoint.ca.  I am also represented by ArtMatch consultants at www.artmatch.ca .