My objective when painting is to capture the spirit of northern Ontario in her many different moods...to express the emotions I feel when I encounter her. Placing the value of my memories on canvas.

I like painting the moody tension that builds between the changes in seasons, as when summer slips into fall. I love a stormy weather front moving in or the silence experienced just after the weather clears. I prefer a sunrise or sunset to noon, and I’m in awe of trees and rock that have been ripped, torn, and shredded through years of assault by wind and water.

I work predominantly in oil, and I have developed a style that sets key elements into each painting: big semi-impressionistic skies and stylized versions of the rock, roots, crevices, and mosses that collectively make up the floor of our unique rugged wilderness. And of course there are the trees: the Pines, the half-dead Hemlocks, and my signature, the Birch on lake's edge...all added with the goal of unconsciously drawing you into what is important in the painting. 

I hope you enjoy.

"Nothing beats the spiritual qualities of the great outdoors" -Robert Genn