Beyond the view is more than meets the eye, or other senses. Why do sounds move us to tears in music, or colors and shapes in non-objective painting elicit an emotional power far beyond the apparent simplicity of what we see?

I paint landscapes and ideas. Both elicit a sense of place, or being, at least for me. Being out, and being in. Visual art is a language and I use it to compose. In the end though, what you see is what you see. What I hope you find is something of yourself.

The surface and its delights are sometimes enough of a door to allow entry to the surprising inner place in which we often find ourselves. I love the materials I use and the marks they make. The impressions they leave as they find their places in my work are a constant source of delight and challenge, and I am never bored and never tire of facing the empty space and its hidden mysteries.

My paintings have voices of their own and speak on many levels at once about things I know or things I try to understand. Love, light, loss, lack. The things of this world. And not a little exuberance.