My greatest influences come from the American Tonalists of the nineteenth century. Chief among them are artists George Inness, Dwight Tryon, and Charles Harold Davis.  Change and memory are my central themes.  I capture the transient and ephemeral qualities of the light and atmosphere in the changing seasons with waxing or waning light. I have all but abandoned the use of photographic reference and plein air painting in favor of my own memory and imagination.  This leads to a more personal and expressive view of the landscape.  I don’t seek to record a specific place but to express a poetic vision of the world. 

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