I spend equal time painting on location and in the studio. Each has its own reward for me. Painting outdoors is an indispensible opportunity to be in direct contact with my subject and to study and record its quickly changing moods. Being a supreme tinkerer however, the studio affords me the time I need to refine my paintings. Paintings done on location in a matter of hours can take days of tinkering and fixing to complete. My goal is to balance these two approaches, to combine the spontaneous and spirited painting done on location with the controlled and more precise work done in the studio. With each new painting my passion for the craft increases, as does my emotional connection to, and understanding of, the landscape which I paint. Ultimately it is this emotional response that I most seek to evoke through my paintings--to share with the viewer the exhilaration, enchantment, and inspiration that I feel when outdoors.

Thomas Cole said it best: "May we at times turn from the ordinary pursuits of life to the pure enjoyment of rural nature; which is in the soul like a fountain of cool waters to the way-worn traveller."