My paintings are greatly influenced by my childhood in rural Rhode Island, as the primary subject of my large, abstract oil paintings is nature. The paintings are constructed as
palimpsests, technically created by the application of multiple thin layers of paint, sometimes employing layers of words chosen mostly from classic New England authors such as Emily Dickinson and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and also often including additional materials such as charcoal, pastel, wax or xeroxes. Each painting begins simply with color and natural forms as the layers evolve into a composition that becomes its own world.

My collage pieces continue the combination of materials and layering in a more three-dimensional format. These works are primarily elegiac, reflections on the temporality of life.