The Monterey Way Series consists of acrylic paintings inspired by the movement of water, shapes that appear and light as it dances across the surface.

Three Ws (Webs, Water, Wrinkles) includes combinations of images to create single photographic prints and features natural objects (animate and inanimate), movement, reflections, textures, and paintings. The focus of this work is to present images that appear to be beautiful from a distance and upon closer examination include dust, aged/dried material, and even aggressive fish during feeding time.

Webs. The intricacy and details of spider webs are visually compelling, especially when delineated by water droplets that help to reveal geometric structure.

Water. I am fascinated by moving water - how it creates shapes, reflects light and color, reveals and/or obscures what resides under the surface, and constantly changing.

Wrinkles. These images are details of my abstract paintings combined with natural elements. These photographs of dried wrinkled elements and paintings represent beauty as it ages. A reminder that change is a process, not an event.

When combining images, I consider formal aspects of the work such as texture, composition, rhythm, and color with special attention to “conversations” between images at the edge of photographs.

Flying over the Midwest, I observed and was inspired by the grids overlaying the landscape. I became intrigued by the “conversation” that occurs at the edges where two pieces of land touch. This collection of work utilizes the structure and order of grids to allow the viewer to consider multiple images at once and observe the interplay between them. More details regarding these pieces are included in this book, Conversations about happiness.

We deciding where to travel, I typically point my compass in the direction of large and small bodies of water such as the Caribbean, Pacific Ocean, Great Lakes, Icy Straits (Alaska) and Acadia (Maine). This is a small collection of images from these water focused adventures.