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"I still like to walk in the fields where I used to pitch bales of hay onto the wagons.  I still feel connected to the farm where I spent my summers.  Some of my attachment comes from the simple purposefulness of that land.  It’s wholesomeness beyond any aesthetic endeavor.  There is richness in land that you cannot stop from growing green that seduces me.  I still wander up those tractor ruts and stare into the quiet watering pond and feel the shade of huge oaks.  In painting, I try to capture that pace of life and give it denseness, a lushness that is reflective of my love of that countryside.

During my years as a college student I traveled between Salt Lake City and my home in New Mexico.  I always paused at those few islands of pastoral grace along the way…surrounded by grand vistas, the humble, earnest, pioneer like fields huddled near small towns satisfied my aesthetic instinct.  I still take inspiration from the time I spend in Utah.  There is an atmosphere in its’ solitude that distills an image.  A pastoral leaning, that permeates the way I see Upper Michigan every August or view Oklahoma on the way to Missouri or even the way I view my day-to-day Santa Fe.
So I have surrendered to a part of me that the city cannot contain.  I long for a rural home but content myself with starting a painting in the field and retaining the freedom I find there in my studio.  With each layer of paint with every brushstroke upon brushstroke with the paring back of texture, the sanding, the scraping, with tint here, a scratch there, I try to make permanent every footfall in those places of feeling…and hope for contentment."