"These paintings are an act of appreciation for the natural world. They are visual poems about the surrounding environment, about moments distilled.

I saw trees, shadows, black branches backlit by nightfall, dancing lines in space, flowers, the moon... and I was walking.

I was inspired by the Chinese and Japanese art of monochrome, sumi-e; the haiku of Basho; the story of Elzeard Bouffier in "The Man Who Planted Trees'; Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching; the Zen arts in general; and the mysteries of life."