Nature offers an infinite number of inspirational forms, shapes, lines, colors and textures as well as an inexhaustible supply of beauty.  In my Botanicals series, I work from life and research. I focus on a few important elements, the essence of a selected plant.  I do no preliminary sketches.  I draw the image directly onto a dark textured canvas.  I use wet and dry brush techniques and solid color fields to draw attention to the textured, flat plane of the canvas. 

I strive to create paintings with an emphasis on unique compositions and shapes, dynamic visual relationships in color and line, and redefinition of the two-dimensional picture plane.  Creating these botanical paintings offers me the opportunity to connect with the environment.  The results of my work are not a realistic botanical rendering but an artistic journey in nature and self.