Blink and it�s gone. Walk too fast and you miss it. The next time you come by it might be gone or altered beyond recognition. Loss is inevitable and so I paint to capture and preserve what has captured me. I began as a realistic painter of panoramic views alternating with the closer, more precise beauty of individual plants, trees, apples, leaves. Gradually some of my work became more abstract as I began focusing on patterns and repetition, on the essence of the memory rather than the precise visual representation of it. Painting is my...more