My two main interests are farms, which in time will probably be gone for housing or development, and groups of people.  I like working with figures and portraits and it is important to me to create a sphere of tension between my characters/figures because I believe that life has become tense due to constant multi-tasking and the non-discrete use of telecommunications....the irony for me is that I create my pieces with the same technology that is making everyone crazy.

My landscapes/farm paintings are more serene and idealized (and totally devoid of people)  probably because I have lived in rural areas for a good deal of my life and on a working hay farm for the past 14 years.  I hate to see lovely old farms being sold off for housing and developement, but that is an unfortunate consequence of the 'too many rats in the cage' theory of overpopulation, to which I subscribe.

My process has evolved over the past 9 years from working with computer-painted small scale pieces printed on watercolor paper to working with multiple prints on rice paper to my current use of a large-scale archival printer, special canvas and surfacing my work with either oil glazes or encaustic wax and oil. 

The part I love about making my work is the creation of imposed order.  I don't want to start a piece and know exactly how it will look when I am done...I am much more tuned in to working with constant surprises, happenstance, luck, will-o-the-wisp and whatever comes along.  This is a constant factor when working with digital images and the abrupt changes that occur with the stroke of a key...