ARTIST STATEMENT
Objects and situations are defined by their environment and by what they aren’t as well as by what they are. Perspectives and perceptions overlap, and meanings change when the context changes.

I build the structure of my paintings on principles of abstract design, then use landscapes from memory or imagination and objects from my life to personalize the abstraction. 

BIOGRAPHY
I was born in Berthoud, CO, halfway between Denver and Cheyenne, WY in 1955, the same year that Elvis released his first record and UFO’s were reported in Roswell, NM. The women on my mother’s side have lived within a ten-mile radius of my hometown in rural Colorado for four generations. The men in my family tend toward the peripatetic, ranging from Pennsylvania and Virginia to Iowa, Kansas and points in between on their way to Colorado. We were over a mile above sea level and in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. To the east of our farming town (more like a village) was flatland prairie for a thousand miles, while five miles to the west the foothills began their ascent to the Continental Divide.

That environment and the memories of my experiences there permeate and inform all of my work.