The last remaining huge tract of farmland in Orange County was slated for development. I remember painting on location one morning just off the road with a large canvas up on my easel.
I stood overlooking a sea of orange groves, divided by a long row of giant eucalyptus trees. As I painted two men in hardhats with rolled blueprints tucked under their arms came up the rise, harbingers of what was to come.

Many years have passed. When I go back to Southern California I have a hard time recognizing those places. I live in Boise, Idaho now. A land with distinctly different seasons. Different light. Lots of open space. Rivers and mountains.

After twelve years living here and twelve years of looking at the landscape I have found some powerful paintings. Some I have made, many that are waiting.

I have shown in galleries for twenty years. My work can be seen in public collections that include the Boise Art Museum, Banner Bank, Stoel Reeves Law Firm, The Pacific Club of Newport Beach and the Boise Airport among others.

I think the common thread running through all my work is this fascination with light and space. It is magical to make something appear to be way off in the distance on a flat canvas. I am also intrigued by painting subjects that are rather ordinary scenes, but as soon as they are translated to paint they become fraught with deeper meanings.”