My first Spring in Nashville was incredibly beautiful. I had never seen so much green. My brain struggled to comprehend all the different greens.

On walks through the woods I was struck by the lighting. It is difficult, if not impossible to photograph the dappled light. Holes in the canopy let light through where the bright beams illuminate small sections of the forest floor and flora creating pools of light among the shadows. It changes and vibrates, dancing when the breeze blows. It felt like magic to me.

I also noticed how the shadows cast by the trees informed me about the trees themselves. So much of how we perceive what we see is rooted in what shadows tell us. Light and shadow, shades of green.

I did a series of paintings and drawings based on the ocean.

If you believe in The Big Bang Theory then you believe that water has been around a long time. If you believe in Intelligent Design then you believe that water has been around for most of the time.

Either way, water has been here.

Water has a story to tell.

This is part of that story.

What are the odds of any of us making it? Chromosomes, X & Y have a lot to do with who is who. Perhaps it's "survival of the fittest" or just dumb luck that accounts for our being here today.

The journey one makes as an individual is an astounding accomplishment. Yet we are all in this together, tangled in the web of life.

Roadtrips is a series of drawings that have been an idea or a “work in progress" for the past few years. These, mostly, charcoal drawings are a place I can go between other projects. This possibly helps to explain the nature of this work.

Flying down the highway we can often blow by and miss what is actually more important than getting to a “destiny”. It may be that the real calling is not the road or the destination but the high places, the mountains, the quite spaces we are speeding past.

There is solace in these fierce landscapes and a tradition across many faith systems to retreat into the hills and quite places for renewal. Perhaps, there is a measure of rest and solace in simply shifting our focus to these places.

This series is about people, identity and the idea that in todays world of social media we are essentially forced to define ourselves visually online. How does this inform us?

Face IT is a series of portraits that explore how people choose to represent themselves to the public. These images are the individuals own "Profile" photos from their Facebook page. This first series is chosen from my "friends" on Facebook. They are all artist, photographers, filmmakers, writers or musicians. As such, I felt that they would have intent behind the images they choose.

This portrait series brings a social media consciousness that both questions and celebrates the idea of people. Like an inner voice that examines oneself, how do these images inform us?

Seeking a comfortable balance between realism and painterly expressive brushwork that allows the viewer room to enter the images with their own ideas.

Inspired by a Gerhard Richter show that included black and white portraits, I wondered what can be said in portraiture that hasn't been said in the past two thousand years? Face IT is the result of that search.

Cows. There’s a lot say about cows. Some things are best said with paints, brushes, charcoal and chalk.

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