I view the world in a reductive and abstract form and apply this approach to create imagined landscapes and spaces using various printmaking methods. During my formative years I lived on the Canadian prairies. There my most intense experiences were associated with the expansiveness of the fields, vastness of the sky, and intensity of the prairie lightning storms: reduced and powerful landscapes. My essentialist approach possibly has been instilled in me by many years of sumi painting, where the necessity to discover, distill and express the essence of an object or landscape intuitively and spontaneously is paramount.

Working without a formal plan, I allow my instinct to counter-balance my more considered attention. Usually my fundamental gesture for any work is to lay down a series of marks. In this initial play for any work is a series of marks, I intermediate between responding intuitively to momentarily considering potential directions the marks might push me, reveling in the uncertainty. The process concludes when I arrive at what I perceive to be a usually unexpected but especially appealing expression.