STATEMENT

"The excitement in painting lies not in the executing perfect likeness of images.  There is one constant thread that has persisted throughout my work and that is nature itself.  These visions of the landscape have only to be unearthed by wandering and roaming familiar refuges.  To realize a scene before oneself is not to replicate its exterior covering, but to allow the scene to be immersed by the observer.  It has now become a part of the artist.  One can paint it truthfully without replicating it."