detail: Liner Notes, Henrietta, 2009, oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches

“…the swooping flight of birds is a kind of cursive script written on the wind….”
David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous

My paintings include fragments of 19th-century handwriting embedded beneath many layers. Source materials also include naturalistic studies of birds of the American West, pen-and-ink drawings, aerial landscapes, and maps. My own gestures are in a kind of conversation with the shape of imprinted text and scribbling. Volumes on this website are organized roughly chronologically, demonstrating a gradual evolution of style and meaning.