“The varied colors, rhythms, and textures of nature and their subsequent interpretation on a visual and emotional level are what I’m about. Perhaps it is the overall compositional simplicity of the varied grasslands I have seen and experienced in the South and Midwest which led me to choose this subject as the means of relating my visual and emotional reactions to nature. Grasses, for example, have a beautiful yet subtle way of reacting to air movement, thereby making an otherwise invisible element part of a visual experience. Grass also reveals the basic form of the land. Colors, too, reflect a great deal. They show dry spells, wet winters, the time of day, seasons and so on. I am attempting in my latest group of paintings to show more than immediately visible images seen at one specific time. I want to capture the essence of the visual and emotional experiences of looking and seeing our natural environment. I hope that each painting will hold a different experience for each viewer.”