I am fascinated with the visual richness of the botanical world. Through my acrylic paintings I try to elicit in the viewer the same kind of emotional responses. These are not landscapes in the general sense, but intimate spaces within the landscape. The interwoven growth, the impudent smaller lifeforms competing with the dominant species for light and space, even the shapes between them, all contribute to a botanical complexity to be celebrated. They cannot be summed up with a quick glance, but must be closely investigated and savored by the curious eye. Though depicting recognizable subject matter, my paintings are organized as abstracts in that all elements of the composition, foreground and background, positive and negative shapes, are equally important. The imagery is often larger than life, with heightened color, and painted in a clean‘super real’ manner.