My main body of work has always been a particular way of looking at landscape. My work is fueled by a lifelong obsession with color and awe at the monstrous complexity of the natural world. For the last several years I have lived and painted in rural Maryland. I am in love with the weather, the crops, the light, the dirt, the weeds. I am especially interested in the places where people's plans for the landscape collide with the riot of life that is there to begin with. Plants have an agenda of their own. I like the silliness, the frailty, the vanity of the human marks. I like the tornado of forces at work in nature. There is so much more going on than we can say.

Wanda is one of a large group of portraits, mostly birds, and the birds are mostly ducks. They are very small, 5" square, and have metallic backgrounds like little Russian icons. Many have short one page stories that go with them. I am working to make them into a book that tells the stories of these creatures as individuals

I have also been painting some large birds that I think of much like landscapes. These are all my birds, who I know well, so they are inevitably portraits, too.