My greatest love besides my family is creating immersive paintings that draw you into a moment filled with wonder. I see my paintings as collaborations with something greater than me, call it mother nature, natural phenomena, or the universe. I can be seen running into my studio in the morning when I know a painting is dry because I am so excited to see the transformation that has taken place. The process of collaborating with something beyond myself truly helps me to practice letting go of the need to have control. They don’t all turn out well, but the ones that do are truly one-of-a-kind visual miracles that could never be reproduced.