My paintings are influenced by nature, especially landscapes that are primarily dominated by mountainous and high desert terrain. There is a certain mystery about the land in high desert areas that grounds me to a broader concept of time and how time passes. I enjoy the layering of time seen in the land and the repetitious aspects that nature uses to create such unedifying beauty.

The mixed media pieces are commentaries on time and how time effects the body, mostly, but also how time is laid out before us in linear terms, hence the repitition. Currently my mixed media pieces embrace the notion of taboo and a persons  idea of what is natural and manmade. I often discuss plastic surgery,  our relationship to underwear, dolls and how different dolls are made for different generations, and the choices we have when it comes to our bodies and our health.

Within nature comes a persons’ relationship to itself and to the environment. My work speaks of this relationship in very broad terms from a very personal point of view. I speak of a larger time passing to my personal time passing and everything that changes within that time - especially the world we live in and how different it has become from my parents generation to my own.