My artwork is made from simple materials and feature a pioneering collage application of acrylic paint, brown paper shopping bags and canvas. I hope that the viewer thinks that they are looking at beautiful and serene paintings at first glance, then discover that they are viewing a collage that involved a painstaking genesis in the studio. Each is the product of many months or years of work. I paint the ordinary bags with color, tear them into myriad pieces, which I then hand apply with matte medium to realize my vision .Inspired by nature’s beauty, my interest in this medium relates to the cycle of life and nature. The bags start out as trees, are made into paper bags, which I collage into the image of the natural world which provided the original inspiration and energy.