I tend to include indications of human infrastructure in my landscape paintings rather than fabricate a sense of true wilderness.  I appreciate greatly the non-human natural world, but I am not naïve about the limits and controls we place upon it in populated areas.  The human imprints are signs of alteration, but also of accessibility and safety.  Regardless of this limitation of the "nature" I see, I look for beauty and resonance, with or without obvious human meddling.

As with my other paintings, I particularly enjoy working with scenes that show depth and perspective.

Siltcoos River at Pacific 2006	Eagle Creek Reservoir 2005	Utah storm 2004	Utah - powerlines in snow 2003	Colorado Nat'l Monument 1 2003
Utah Butte 1 2003	Davis Lake (OR) 2003	Toutle River Dam (WA) 2002

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