I am a Los Angeles–based painter whose work has evolved from abstracted landscapes into an exploration of the seen and unseen natural world, and the energy that underlies it.

I’m interested in examining the moments when one force of energy meets another—and the melding of the two. Central to my current work is the concept of attenuation: the property of matter to absorb some of the spectrum of penetrating energy or to reflect it; any two energetic beings/forces are changed by their mere contact.

Working intuitively from this starting point, I visualize ideas while being in nature, or reading/listening to podcasts about science, astronomy and even astrology. Image flashes and questions become the starting point of the painting - What does it feel like to be in the wind? Where does the spark of an idea come from? How do we absorb the energy of the ground under our feet?