For the last ten years, I have concentrated on landscape images with an emphasis on composition and pattern through mark making.  Initially, the subjects were places near my home in Bowling Green, Kentucky.  Now, I travel specifically to parks or other special places to take photographs.  "Cherokee Park" is based on snaps from the Louisville park.  "Taylorsville Lake #6" is a recent painting based on photographs taken in 2001.

I'm not always sure if a particular place will generate the values, shapes or patterns that I need, so I take lots of snapshots.  I'll often stand in one spot and slowly turn, snapping the shutter.  Later in my studio, these snaps are taped together into panoramas, which I study for possible compositions. Then, I draw or paint value contrasts of trees and patterns of leaves.  When these elements work together, the illusion of the landscape occurs.

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