I’ve been painting since I was in high school. I began painting watercolor landscapes and moved on to portraits, nudes and genre paintings when I attended Corcoran art school. I started painting abstract or non-objective paintings when I moved to New York.

Many of my paintings are landscapes, although some of my paintings seem to have only a minimal reference to a place, I often do have a place in mind. Most of my paintings include water and sky, perhaps because I have always lived near an ocean. Aerial views, seen from airplane windows, also influence some of the shapes in my works.

I am a traditional painter in my methods and materials. I paint in oils on stretched canvases. I start paintings with charcoal lines and thin color washes and often incorporate the charcoal under-dryings in the finished work. I feel that color and balance are the most important elements in my paintings.