While working in a variety of media, I discovered my love of charcoal and the challenges of its limited palette.  Using techniques developed on my own, I create pieces inspired by the natural world. Particular places evoke strong feelings, which I portray as emotional landscapes rather than realistic renderings.

Internal journeys and questions are common themes throughout my work. Realizing the necessity of acknowledging and expressing that which is within, both the light and the dark, I explore these emotions in my drawings.   I arrange the elements in my charcoals to resonate with feelings of place on a very primitive level.  Through my work, I seek to capture something larger.

As Robert Henri aptly put it, “There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness.  Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.  If one could but recall his vision by some sort of sign.  It was in this hope that the arts were invented. Sign-posts on the way to what may be.  Sign-posts toward greater knowledge.”