I adore the Southwestern United States for it's huge expansive scenery which is especially prevelant on the Colorado River Plateau. The colors in this desert are distinct, and I'm constantly enhancing them on canvas. I also spend a lot of time next to and on the water; fishing and admiring the reflections of nature. I'm always analyzing contrasts and textures of surfaces and how they each play a part of the big picture.
Although, once in a while I'll do a painting "en plein aire" to depict the feeling or emotion of a special scene, I prefer to work from my own photographs as studies. I also enjoy the fluidity of watercolors and their spontaneous reactions for a different interpretation, but prefer the oils on canvas to most mediums.
You'll rarely see evidence of people or their handywork in my art. I try to recapture the natural world, as it was before we forever changed it, for the sake of progress.
I've had a passion for drawing since I was a child, and have been painting for more than 30 years as a hobby. Only in recent years have I been working full-time in my desert studio. Painting the landscape is a result of my enthusiasm for the outdoors, and my immense desire to record it on canvas for all time.