“The beauty of the imagination is that it can discover such magnificent vastness inside a tiny space.” “The imagination retains a passion for freedom. It wants to press ahead beyond the accepted frontiers and bring back reports of regions no mapmaker has yet visited.” “It illuminates the inner landscapes of our life and helps us discover their secret archaeologies.” - John O’Donohue, “Beauty, The invisible Embrace”

Having always been fascinated with life’s mysteries that often lie outside of our culture’s established norms, I find that abstraction departs from the prosaic to challenge our perceptions of our everyday world. My passion is to create images that to me are compelling, both emotionally and visually, endeavoring to provide a portal for transmuting the temporal to the empyreal.  I am an explorer in a landscape barren of familiarity to journey through my own mindful metaphors. The viewer is invited to as well.

The images are, initially, captures of paint; cracked, flaked or otherwise deteriorating on rusting metal. The textures are inherent and the colors, tonality and composition are the result of my initial and subsequent response to the subject matter.