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My recent work explores relationships between natural landscape and pattern.  Whether I am looking into the starry night sky or at a tangle of brush I am interested in the way pattern exists in the world.  Repetitive pattern establishes an order and structure that can be broken, disrupted and disconnected.  It is within this disconnect that I find beauty, secrets and mystery.  As my current subject, the garden, exemplifies the contrast of implied order versus the proliferation and profusion of nature itself.  Plants and animals inhabit the landscapes of my most recent paintings where they play out their respective dramas.

Earlier works, also included on this site, are influenced by my interest and study of ceramic tile decoration, referencing Spanish and Moorish tile design and architecture.  These paintings depict a tile floor, wall or ceiling in which the structure of the surface is subverted as tiles slip in and out of place, simultaneously building and collapsing pattern.