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My landscapes are inspired by the natural color fields of my native San Joaquin Valley. Crop rotations regularly present different shapes and textures, and each season brings new colors in sections and rows. The geometric structures and planes that formed the wide-open landscape of my youth have always played a strong role in my imagination and compositions.
Family ties frequently bring me back to the Valley, where I remain captivated by the relatively empty spaces plotted beneath vast skies. The highways and roads slicing through these rural places divide and order space into elemental forms of drawing and painting. These lines and structures bear the weight of my compositions, while color ties them to emotion.
From the agricultural fields of the Salinas Valley to the coastlines of San Mateo and Marin Counties, and from the native oaks and rolling hills of Contra Costa County to the cityscapes and figures that give shape and beauty to the San Francisco Bay Area, elements of abstraction and formal structure lend ambiguity to the implied narrative of each piece. The story is left to the viewer.
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