Painting, to me, is about interpreting creation.  Having been raised in Idaho, it was easy to become connected with the natural beauties of creation.  From sun-drenched fields to frosty mountain peaks, the splendor of nature has inspired me.

 Once inspired, I began to express my sentiments by painting.  I believe that painting is not a fixed record of our world.  It is not an attempt at grabbing a scene and trying to freeze every blade of grass on canvas.  Rather, it is like taking a mood, a feel, or faint aroma of a scene and capturing that certain aspect, dissecting it, and placing it back together so people can see how I viewed it.  By choosing to emphasize a specific aspect of a scene, I am better able to express my ideas and feelings about a subject.  While I have been influenced from a wide variety of artists ranging from Norman Rockwell to Picasso, my vision tends to lean towards those artists who paint with an “impressionistic” style.  To me, a stroke of crimson against green better represents a field of grass then does a picture expressing the thousands of individual blades. 

 Painting is a struggle.  I know that no matter how well I try to express my subject it is nothing compared to creation.  This constant striving for the impossible is what keeps me going.