Rocky Mountain Therapros

I love the textures and patterns and colors found on fungi and lichen. I've photographed these organisms all over the world. Magnified through the lens of a camera, details on fungi and lichen become fantastical and invite abstraction. When I paint, my goal is not to replicate what I see. Nature is already perfect as it exists to me. I'm exploring how paint expounds on colors, textures and forms to reimagine what is seen. Lichen transforms into an underwater landscape.

These three paintings were on display in FUNGI, an international juried exhibit at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, presented with Brooklyn Mushroom, in June 2025. The exhibition celebrated the strange and beautiful world of fungi through contemporary art.