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 architectural structures in the landscape, and a concern for pictorial structure 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. My attitude over the last two years has been simply to paint what presents itself to me as of compelling interest, and to see where that leads.