As a child I was in the forests, and so the forests are in me.

The chaos of my childhood was mitigated by the countless hours I willingly spent alone in the forest finding silence. The shapes imprinted on me.

The unique light and stark geometry of the Pacific Northwest mountain forests inspires my current work in painting and printmaking. Rather than paint the landscape literally, I pull shapes and form from the landscape for my compositions and pull hues from my emotional connection to the landscape for color.

With these invented landscapes as the initial foundation, I use both printmaking and painting as different starting points on a journey to the same destination, with my printmaking particularly exploring ideas of interference and disruption – the disruption of the real and the organic by the unreal, the artificial, and the inorganic. These themes surface from my long career working in the world of games and virtual reality making the unreal feel real.