My painting divides into several categories. The one which describes most of my work could be called naturalistic or realistic landscape. These paintings include plein air studies and more elaborate works done from drawings and, occasionally, photographs. A lot of them depict architecture or structures in the landscape, and a concern for formal pictorial organization is never far from the center of my thought process, even when I am working in a highly-detailed "realistic" manner.

A second category would be situations involving figures in the landscape. These are almost story-telling images, and have included people fishing, people in a parade, figures on a beach or in a museum. Lately I've thought more and more about tourists as a continuing figurative theme.

Also, I occasionally depart from the strictures of naturalism, arbitrarily filling parts of an image with color for its own sake, or deriving images from randomly-generated shapes. Last year, in learning to work with acrylics and water-soluble oils, I started working with heavy textures, and that preoccupation is continuing.