A collector of the foxed and stained, of twigs and seeds and forest debris my artwork is a compendium of impressions gathered from the natural beauty surrounding my home and studio in Sonoma County, CA.

Inspiration comes from a fragment of antique paper or the deckle on the pages of an old book, the feeling of color, or a memory just out of reach. Sometimes it’s in a liminal place where water meets land, in the the iodine smell of the coast on a path seen and felt in all seasons and weathers or the flicker of sky through redwoods at dusk.

Working from observation at the intersection of representation and abstraction I create mixed media works in watercolor, gouache, ink and oil that investigate how these gathered sensations might look as a painting.