"As an artist, I try to breathe honesty into each brush stroke. There are many things that inspire my work, but environmental consciousness and phenomenology as a process of painting are the forces that I feel most strongly about. I am a landscape painter painting in oil, acrylic and watercolors as these materials help bring air into my painting, allow me to find particular color relationships and also slow me down, making me look closely at patterns and movements that surround me. These observations, when translated through paint, hope to ask and invite the viewer to look closely at the environment they are in. Through this process of engagement, either consciously or sub-subconsciously, I want to make people more aware of the spaces that they occupy, such that they are actively looking with a sense of curiosity. This act of looking, of awareness, of contemplation is what I want my viewers to perform. I believe it is the first step in instigating any form of hope."