Super-Natural

Beast

oil on panel, 42 x 42 in., 2020

Flap-Jacker

oil on panel, 36 x 24 in., 2018

Loopy

oil on panel, 50 x 44 in., 2016

Bulge

oil on panel, 60 x 60 in., 2017

Cadmium Dreaming

oil on wood panel, 18 x 18 in., 2017

Just Dandy

oil on panel, 60 x 60 in., 2018

Push

oil & acrylic on panel, 44 x 50 in., 2016

Loop-y

oil on panel, 30 x 30 in., 2019

Burst

oil & acrylic on panel, 60 x 60 in., 2017

Spidey

oil on panel, 53 x 72 in., 2016

Florette

oil on canvas, 60 x 48 in., 2019

They Grew Here

oil on panel, 40 x 50 in., 2017

Last Stand

oil on panel, 36 x 32 in., 2016

Over-Under

oil on canvas, 36 x 32 in., 2015

Mass Attack

oil on panel, 36 x 32 in., 2015

Sticks on Fire

oil on panel, 24 x 24, 2016

Cyclops

oil on panel, 24 x 24 in., 2016

Sunburst Aeonium

oil on panel, 24 x 24 in., 2015

The inspiration for these paintings stems from my intense foray in transforming Southern California residential landscapes into drought-tolerant gardens, designed in response to the ongoing drought. Inspired by the sculptural forms and bombastic colors of the succulent plants, I sought to transform through oil paint their metaphorical qualities, considering relationships in the language of art-making between form and abstraction; figure and ground; and image and meaning. The works exploit the various elements of painting: color, materiality, processes, image and abstraction, into an image in which all parts interact, often exuberantly, in the same field. They are created as meditations on our relationship with nature.