In my work, the paradox of disturbing beauty is a constant. Plant environments allow me to explore intense color, edges, and forms, building discontinuous abstractions that exaggerate and intensify the realistic 
natural world.

Heightened color combined with aggressive plant imagery disrupt ideas of the traditional landscape, where close-up details of nature become catalysts for expressionist friction. In my multiple panel works, I use modified grids and arrays to break up continuous scenes, enhancing an overall sense of dynamics and disconnect. There is a “humpty-dumpty” desire to reunite components to make the image whole, but the fragments resist. The eye cannot stop anywhere for long, and this creates a sense of overall restlessness moving through dense and complex scenes.

In the end, my paintings find in discord a way to generate an enigmatic, even seductive, presence that keeps the viewer involved and yet distant.