To be on a CLOSE REACH means you're moving at a slant to the prevailing wind. This imagery and metaphor comes from my experience sailing offshore in the Atlantic or coasting along Florida's south-eastern coast.

Collectors have described these small, colorful and textured paintings as enigmatic and joyful. My paintings playfully employ simplified depictions of well-know seaside forms in vertical compositions. The multiple surface tensions and textures, controlled and exaggerated color, and the simplified drawing of shapes and spaces are all the means to embody the the immediate and primitive structure of the real.

 Behind all of this work is always the intuition that my experience has a significance that transcends its immediate importance for me personally. I offer these paintings as metaphors for the deep content we all share,