Taking the time to see and listen is what the artist does. What we see is not always the biggest and brightest but often the small and seemingly inconsequential. What we hear is the voice of the muse in private conversation with us. We listen and look and sometimes argue with the muse while deciding to heed that wisdom or plug along alone. I choose to listen; I try to see, but I have no intention of duplicating what is all around me. Instead, I try to capture the essence of what is there, a feeling or some sort of recognition. I want the viewer to feel a connection to the work, a resonance of their own, a feeling of having been to that place in some way. Too much information gets in the way of your story and I always want your story to be in my work.

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I am an artist who prefers to remain anonymous. Everyone writes their story, some are interesting, some are not, some grandiose, some humble. At any rate, I'm a painter and I feel the paintings should speak for themselves. Where I've been, who I've studied with, what awards I've won are irrelevant. You either like the image or you don't, it's that simple.

My landscapes come from memories of places I've been, pictures I've seen or just out of my imagination. I begin work with an idea which rarely ends up as I started. At some point the muse takes over and surprises me, as I work and wonder what life the painting is taking on. In the end I stand back and see that while I have created I am hardly the creator.

The water paintings came from my lap swimming. As I swam back and forth entering into the rhythm of my strokes, immersed in the water, I began thinking of how to paint what I was feeling. I wanted to capture the quiet, calm meditative feeling of immersion.

Circles represent wholeness or the striving for wholeness. Some of the oldest recorded images are circles dating back ten thousand years by unknown people that we are still connected to. We move in circles, our actions become circular. I leave these images and return to them again and again. Maybe they are nothing more than simple circles but then it's the simple things in life that hold the truths.