My paintings explore character. 'Character' exudes in what humankind has created - explosions of individuality in color, line, invention - whether in the pure pursuit of fun or functionality. I layer these elements into an image that is sometimes abstract in its parts, but allegorical in its totality.  

Nothing is black and white. Even the darkest times had their beauties. There were riches to be found in aerial views of fresh fields, the comforting roar of an engine, layers of life lived revealed in a ruined wall, the wind in anything.  

The Warbirds and WWII Bombers and Fighters have that terrible beauty. I have painted them still flying through the residual structures left by war, existing in perpetuity somewhere between death and rebirth. The character and integrity that took them up there are indelible.  

I paint without time, wherein the human traits that are made evident in the 'man-made', in the things we do, and where and how we live, are never obsolete. What I paint is a celebration: of every gorgeous color there is, of the glory years of youth, of sacrifice, of craziness and invention, hard work and pleasure, vacations - those halcyon days and nights of desperate rest– and what makes life worth living.