My work is inspired by nature. Looking back at thoughts, drawings, and journal writings from years past, I can see that this has been a focus all my life.  Every day I learn something new; discover another connection as I seek an expression of the complexity, simplicity, delicacy, and resilience of nature.  The vision is becoming crisper and more focused.
 
Continually recurring concerns in my art are shape, colour, and texture, with a recent emphasis on pattern and pattern recognition.    Over the past few years, the choices I have made during the process of making my art have been influenced by my growing interest in fractals, chaos theory and particle physics.  My work doesn’t always visually represent these subjects, but reflect a philosophy extended from these ideas.  From these sources come ideas of connectedness, complexity, and order.
 
Details of plant growth, arrangements of rocks on a beach, or assemblages of fallen sticks, for example, are important.  The random arrangements create a pattern that is characteristic of the objects represented. The focus on various random arrangements of objects or growth leads to connections not before realized such as the branching of a tree or bush being similar to the network of nerves or blood vessels within our bodies or the patterns created by trickling water over sand.
 
Some work represents a close-up fragment of one subject, while other work combines several images, juxtaposing or comparing various patterns, sometimes expressing similarity, other times, differences, but always a connection.
 
New ideas in science and mathematics are changing the way we look at the world.  There is a growing realization that the reductionist approach does not explain everything.  I use the grid or square format to reflect the “scientific” approach of “knowing” a thing.  There is now more acceptance of using an wholistic approach when looking at understanding all things. 
 
The detailed works I am creating reflects this approach.  I am not simplifying or reducing what I represent. “God is in the details.”  The work of art can never be the thing represented, but it may cause the viewer of the art to look at the real in a fresh way.