For the past forty years the focus of my artwork has been landscape. My subject matter derives from sites throughout the American Southwest as well as from Mexico, Central America, Spain and Poland. I dedicated myself to this pursuit after studying the works of master painters and draftsman in museums. I am most influenced by European art from the period that begins in the Renaissance and ends in the late nineteenth century. The paintings of Titian, Theodore Rousseau and Caspar David Friedrich are of particular interest as are the drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci, Peter Paul Rubens and Paul Cezanne.

My drawings are done outdoors directly from nature; my paintings are done in the studio using drawings as reference. I don’t work from photos. The paintings are done in oil. The early layers are opaque paint the latter transparent glazes. Drawings intended primarily as reference for paintings are usually worked on in pencil; drawings that stand alone have been done in charcoal, conte and Japanese ink–separately or in unison. The fact that I derive my income from teaching allows me to work slowly and deliberately. Larger paintings often take a year to complete; I may devote two or three months to the preparatory studies alone.

I like to think of myself as part of a long line of artists whose main task is translating, in a coherent way, what they perceive visually onto a two dimensional plane. The images in the Chauvet caves are probably the earliest extant examples of this vocation. They are still of great interest to us today. I hope my efforts are also of interest to others.