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I find deep artistic and personal satisfaction in exploring the world of the spirit through the images found in nature. Too often paintings of flora are conceived and executed in only the most superficial and decorative manner. I prefer to juxtapose images from nature and the works and meanings of man, infusing both with a content that goes beyond the pretty and conventional. There is mystery and spirituality on the forest floor, at the edge of the lake, in the structure and form of minerals or the ancient echoes of long extinguished life. In the natural world, I see a reflection of the full range of human emotion implicit in the eternal cycle of birth and death that holds all of us. Artistically, I feel closely allied with the German Romantic painters. While my subject matter is more intimate, I feel a strong companionship with their ideology, a deep respect for their use of nature as a mirror of the human spiritual condition. I try to challenge my viewers and ask them to open their eyes to the intensity and spirituality of the cycle of life implicit in even its smallest part.