I paint landscapes in oils: rural scenes in Vermont and cityscapes in Brooklyn, New York. My goal in painting is always to capture the light on the land. Light reveals the fleeting moment that transforms our ordinary surroundings into a world of greater intensity. Light imbues the landscape with feeling. Light in painting expresses my love for the land and for our earth.

As I walk the streets and roads of Brooklyn and Vermont in all seasons and all weathers, I see dazzling sunlight on water in early morning, the thin diffuse light of a snowstorm, deep shadows in late summer, and I seek to convey the emotional essence of these and other effects in color, shape, and line. I work to achieve two transformations: to turn flat canvas into deep space, and to turn heavy paint into insubstantial light and air.

Painting is non-verbal; it is difficult to describe what I do with paint in words. No one says it better than Kenneth Clark: “Facts become art through love, which unifies them and lifts them to a higher plane of reality; and in landscape, this all-embracing love is expressed by light.”