My artistic approach is deeply inspired by the Masters of Impressionism such as Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh and Georgia O’Keeffe.  Subtle light, compositional discipline and variant color hues sensitize me to imagine a scene in an unconventional and thought-provoking way to convey a deeper sense of underlying beauty. I seek-out subjects that play-off a narrow color palette to capture images that appear more monochromatic, yet paradoxically maintain a full color spectrum.

Photographing nature, and in particular, flowers, represents to me one of the passionate human experiences.  Flowers in our everyday lives are as intense as our emotions and are used to convey love, sorrow, happiness, condolences, and a myriad of other feelings. It is this expressiveness in nature that I find fascinating that in turn, compels inspiration.

I apply the fundamentals of traditional art to photography so that there is a strong structural basis for my work. Using photography as a medium enables me to envision artwork that provides a journey of discovery.  For example, I want the viewer to question the artwork in terms of their traditional biases; is the work photography, or is the work a painting, or a collage, or something entirely different?  Does the medium matter?  My imagery is intended to form a bridge between rigid traditional artistic interpretation and evolving technology that questions how art is perceived.

I often observe what is occurring in the background of a subject, then conceptualize a way to integrate the background with the subject to create a juxtaposition.  This Gestalt approach allows me to simplify the background and use it as a stage for the subject to move upon.  This method is used exclusively in the Liquid Flower Series of my floral photography.

In a complex world I strive to simplify what I observe to expose the poetry of nature.  To this end, my passion for photography is to excite the perceptions of what I see while discovering an underlying emotional sensitivity.  Ultimately, the visualization creates a link to nature that harmonizes beauty through a restful visual mediation as a balance between nature and a technologically complex world.