As an impressionist landscape painter, my work is always pushing into the space between what we see and what we sense, expressing those higher truths through imagery and texture. I spend a lot of time in the backcountry, huffing it across the open sage lands and up through the dells searching out my compositions and the stories I am trying to tell. I grew up on Louis L’amour, German faerie stories and oral storytelling of a wild world. As much as I am inspired by artists such as Ernest L. Blumenschein and Maynard Dixon, I am driven by the pursuit of story and forgotten wisdom: the voices of the rocks and valleys that just whisper now.