I have been doing abstract painting for over 30 years. I am largely self taught, although I have attended several courses throughout my technical education. I am a physicist by training and profession and the painting has complemented this work throughout my education and career. 

To me, painting is a playground where conflicts and disparate elements may be resolved visually. I draw a lot from the natural world, having grown up spending a lot of time in redwood forests of California, and since then in the Alps and now the Rocky Mountains.  My painting process is interactive. I start with certain shapes or colors and then I seek to integrate them into a coherent whole, iterating periodically, reevaluating as the work develops. Painting became a practice for me to find a vision of integration, or to at least practice with dissonance. I have mainly worked with acrylic paints which dries quickly and allows for multiple layering as well as blending