I am drawn to beautiful things…but beauty that reaches beyond the eyes and into the soul, the poignant beauty of vulnerability, fragility, and hope.

I have a reverence for the earth and all the wondrous things we often overlook. I revel in the patterns and intricacies of nature elevating them to iconic status to emphasize the sacredness and beauty of all life.

I come from a fine art background and I approach photography like painting. I am interested in creating the photograph rather than just taking it. The hand of the artist becomes an integral part of the artwork making it more painterly and sculptural.

I shoot my photographs with a traditional medium format camera (Mamiya RZ 6x7) and sometimes with my ancient Nikon FM. I develop the black and white negatives, generally TMAX 100, and then have them drum scanned. I use the computer as a digital darkroom, and it becomes a tool just like a paintbrush where I can paint out distracting elements or add new ones and rearrange the composition. The images are then printed out as lambda prints, which is a process that takes the digital file and projects it onto color photographic paper which is then put through the traditional photographic chemicals.

After mounting the photographs onto museum board and then onto wood panels, I usually put a glaze of oil paint over the photographs and finish by pouring resin onto them. I sand and buff the resin to get an almost wax-like finish, a very smooth, sensual, and tactile surface that contributes to the painterly feel of the pieces.