My paintings reflect my interest in the built environment, and the interplay between public space, nature and the urban world. My work is greatly influenced by my career as a landscape architect, where I learned to appreciate the overlap of culture, history, nature, and industry that occurs in an urban environment. Responding to certain sites that might otherwise be overlooked, whether industrial areas, back alleys, highway overpasses, or the everyday urban street, I want to capture the appeal and life of these settings with the vibrancy of colors that is my foundation. I’m also drawn to the juxtaposition of man-made and natural elements, and the interplay between the two. My paintings are a reflection on the underlying aesthetic of the places we see, and often don’t see, in our world.