I have been painting birds, trees, and flowers for thirty-five years. My aim is to create images that bridge subject and material and that express something beyond what can be described in words. I am inspired by the decorative arts, by gardening and backyard birding, by the Maine woods and Emily Dickinson, by the artists Marsden Hartley, Albert York, and Florine Stettheimer. I am interested in a kind of art that is bound to nature and to my life as an artist. I believe in beauty, in the realm between the real and the folkloric, in the poetic space between what I see and what I imagine.