My images draw from my relationship to the natural world, primarily from the landscapes of the Northwest and the Southwest. My emotional reaction to those landscapes and my tendency to bond with a particular scene causes me to make numerous trips to the same place to experience it in a variety of light and weather conditions.
As a landscape architect I design gardens in layers both two dimensionally and three dimensionally. Building a landscape through the monotype process also involves layering through the use of multiple plates to create atmosphere, perspective and scale. Each plate contributes information which adds to the complexity and the wholeness of the image. Surprises and magical effects are the reason I can't wait to repeat the process again and again.
