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"As a native of the west, I grew up surrounded by landscapes of astonishing diversity, light and beauty.

Coming into the world this way, I developed a great passion for wild places and a love for the infinite ways color and light manifest with form on this earth.

My work is a reflection of that love and seeks to express a magical reality with color as the universal language. I play with its endless variety and vibrancy, translating my own sense of joy and mystery of the physical world onto canvas.

After starting a painting outdoors, I will spend perhaps more time with it in the studio, where I can bring in my own impressions and memories. Using a glazing technique, I add layers of color to the surface of the painting, which gives depth and a high saturation to the colors, and satisfies my love for the feeling of a work being lit from within.

I have found great kinship with the art of the Fauve painters, Van Gogh, Georgia O'Keefe, Ansel Adams, Canadian painters Emily Carr and Lawren Harris, and the great Russian mystic painter Nicholas Roerich. I love their bold expressions of color and light, and a reverence for nature.

For me, painting is devotion. It is a simple, ongoing prayer to the natural world, a visual narrative of the beauty I see everywhere."