My subject is poetic botanical abstraction. I paint imagined seeds, contained, dispersing or seen through a micro or macro lens. This Calalapa pod has enchanted and mezmerized me.

I am inspired by the early photographs of Karl Blossfeldt and the Svalbard seed vault, where boxed seeds lay protected from climate change. Conveying the idea of cold, I limit myself to the cool winter palette.  An amalgam of natural materials, ash, plaster, paper and pumice maintains a harmony between material and subject in my work. These paintings earned their patina through hours of mixed media seeking, submerging and sounding.