Lao Tzu wrote that man is tied to the earth, earth to the skies, and the skies to the universe...and the universe is the home of the Tao (“the way”).

There is a unique life in everything that surrounds us…a tree is a living organism and the life force in that tree does not end when the tree is felled.

“Western” art reproduces and/or “expresses” the surface appearance…from which came “Impressionism”.   “Eastern” “art” is part of a greater discipline:  understanding the relationship between an “object” and its environment, that a piece of artwork is exactly that – a piece of a greater whole.

As a result of time spent in Southeast Asia, as well as having become a student of Eastern philosophy, I now build each object in my work from the inside to the outside.

If I were to give a “label” to my work, it would be:  allegorical impressionism.