My paintings are not meant to be “realistic” or “photographic”. They refer to landscape, without being deliberately pictorial or totally abstract. They are not meant to be “pictures of nature” as much as they are expressions of “what nature leaves me with.”
Flowers are one of those wondrous things. I enjoy expressing the deep connection I feel to plants of all sorts, a connection which has developed out of life-long interests in gardening, hiking, and nature study.
The truth of a person is inner as well as on the surface. I’d like to catch that in a way that may fuel a spark of recognition or connection in the viewer. In my portraits done from old family photos, painting can be a personal journey to get to know someone I never met or perhaps met long ago.