LITCHFIELD, CT.- This show of new paintings combines themes that I’ve been working on for many years including abstracted landscapes, watery environments and dreamscapes. This work is painted in oil on paper or wood panel and includes individual as well as modular paintings.

Recently, I have come to understand that making my work is how I love the world. At every step of my process, I have opportunities to synthesize memories of color, place, and lucid dreams, all filtered through a growing sense of emotion.


Environmental Viewing Space (Long Distance), 2026 Oil on panel 48 inches x 36 inches.

There is a sensational passion, a spiritual fire, that burns beneath and behind the making of, and looking at, visual art. My studio is the place where I feel most myself, and I look forward to entering it as a space where the rules of the outside world don’t apply and the images in my mind can be made visible while I’m safely ensconced. This is where I can explore the spiritual qualities and interconnection of the internal and external worlds that I inhabit.


Swamp Shimmer 30, 2025 Oil on panel 24 inches x 18 inches.

The “Swamp” paintings are based on my experience observing consecutive sunrises in the swamp as an artist in residence and represent a promise of hope as moments in the progression of the auroral environment from darkness through to bright daylight. By using paint with thick impasto, the physicality of mark-making becomes a material record, capturing motion and reflections in water.


Cloud Machine, Dream Machine II, 2024 Oil on paper 31 inches x 23 inches framed (30 inches x 22 inches unframed)

Shortly after returning to the US from living in Berlin, Germany, I participated in an artist’s residency in Mississippi, and all of a sudden, the spectacle of the swamp before me as a sensuous watery environment where I observed sunrise after sunrise from the lake’s surface, seduced me as if I had become part of the sunrise itself. There was an ecstasy to this place, and a unification of interests I had been exploring for a long time: auroral and crepuscular light, qualities of water, mirror-imagery, reflection, pattern, ambiguous forms, and the sequential and progressive qualities of experiencing a prismatic environment through time. There was an awareness at all times of things not being solid, of possibility and potential pulsating beneath surfaces. Now with this environment as an armature, I deepened the project into an extensive and ongoing investigation into abstraction.


Sunrise Study VI, 2019 Oil on paper, mounted to panel 17 inches x 13 inches framed (16 inches x 12 inches unframed)

As grouped installations, they become a tapestry of recorded time, a map or calendar representing different stages within one sunrise, or moments from many sunrises brought together, an accumulation of sunrises on bodies of water witnessed over my lifetime thus far. As individual paintings they speak to a particular moment of color and light in the landscape. I see landscape as a metaphor that possesses a mesmerizing yet impenetrable mystery.


Environmental Viewing Space (Swamp), 2023. Oil on panel 48 inches x 36 inches

The “Cloud Machine, Dream Machine” paintings were inspired by recent waking dreams, as a meditation on the transmutation of matter and energy from one state to another. The imagery for these paintings came to me as moving visions, like animations, in lucid dreams where light transformed into leaf-like shapes that generated clouds, and in other dreams, visions of the sky at sunset encircled by vignettes of organic abstraction. It’s amazing to me that this kind of subconscious conjuring can have so much poignancy and power while its direct genesis remains inexplicable.

“Love, in its essence, is spiritual fire.” – Emanuel Swedenborg