My work is about creating a feeling of deep calm, soft stillness, expansive space and tranquility, a sense of equanimity, a secret to take rest.The process is one of transmuting paint into lyrical expressions of color and mood. I see color and composition as my primary modes of communication.My studio in Santa Fe looks out to the Sangre de Christo Mountains; recently I have been exploring the shapes of clouds in all of their many moods, bathed in rose reflected sunset light as well as the lavenders and deep blues of duskI am interested in simplifying the landscape forms of ground plane, sky plane and horizon line to achieve a sense poetic abstraction.