My main inspiration is the landscape, and the wonder and complexity of life. Through the images of garden, treescapes, flora and birdsong I reach for the sublime, the natural and the awe inspiring. I work mainly with oil on canvas. As I work on a piece, layer upon layer of paint is laid down, until I achieve a feeling of being surrounded by life in its disorderly order, passion, sensuality and bittersweet sadness. The paintings are abstract, using imagination as a tool for departure from explicit reality, and create the atmosphere of what looking at the landscape is to me. My goal is to paint beauty, to bring an uplifting message of admiration and hope to the viewer.