My working images begin with drawings and studies created from the synthesis of collected memories and photographs. The photographs act as a map, illuminating questions of gesture, perspective and structure drawn from the narrative of memory. My studies are followed by larger paintings, though sometimes the studies themselves become the final image.

My interest is in the transient moment, the fleeting expression, the history of time as it crosses a face, passes through a body at rest or at work. How does a figure tell a story? How can it illuminate a moment in time that speaks to something larger, just out of reach?

My paintings endeavor to be illustrations of the architecture of human solitude, the archeology of the soul, and the limitless realms of internal worlds mostly hidden from us. Images of an inhabited silence, the poetry of solitude (not loneliness), and of how we take root in the world day after day. Of the silent bonds that connect us and the evanescent moment between before and after.

The human figure is a landscape of time, and so my paintings become a form of landscape painting. Within are passages of abstraction and pentimenti - a testimony of the visible history of the work.