I am a perceptual painter. My main focus is cityscape and landscape.In my outdoor and larger abstract studio paintings, I try to capture a feeling of place, light, time, and season with my approach. Light, composition, gesture, and the materialquality of oil paint are of the utmost importance to me. These formal aspects become the subject matter and drive the work. For example, when I paint outside, things that I perceive are often mimicked by the application of the paint. A rock might be shown as a thick swatch of paint, while water might be a more fluid and thin application of thepaint.Although my paintings have recognizable subjects, they are abstract. I use loose, gestural brushstrokes and am constantly experimenting, expanding, and refining my painting language to make it more dynamic and interesting. I consider myself a post-abstract expressionist landscape painter in the tradition of Frank Auerbach and Chaim Soutine. I paint in Madison, as well as in surrounding cities. I like painting in Madison at James Madison Park, Vilas Park, and around the Capitol Square. Painting in and around Madison has become a recurring theme of my work and I find something new to paint every time I revisit a location. I continue to paint at some 30 spots and attempt to paint them in a new and fresh light each time. After painting in many other places like Baltimore, New Hampshire, and Maine, it’s been wonderful to return to my roots and to express myself through painting.