My work is inspired by nature and my connection to a spiritual reality manifesting itself through forces in nature and life. In my experience the inner landscape mirrors the outer landscape. I try to make visible the invisible through color and lyrical abstractions. Symbolic abstraction develops over time for me as my own personal visual language and proves itself many times archetypal, often to my own surprise. My pieces usually have a source in my life conscious or unconscious as it may be.

An immediate connection to life experiences is especially apparent in my pastel drawings. The images are fresh, sometimes poetic, looking at situations with humor. My paintings have been inspired by my garden and the landscape of New Mexico: a place of light and color. The river is rushing by, always new, and the hummingbirds are doing their dance of delight in life. The garden is enclosed and intimate; it reveals full circle the course of life within one year's seasons. It is a place of tranquility and beauty but also one of natural loss and death.

Seasons manifest different colors and textures which lead me often to a change in technique translating my experience into different rhythms on the canvas, like the Divas or nature spirits that seem to appear in the corner of my eye as I walk through my garden.

In the process of painting I walk a fine line between control, intuition and spontaneity. A fine garden, a fine painting and I think life looses their magic for me if there is no wildness and unpredictability.

My grandfather was a painter at the turn of the century in Germany. He painted the beautiful roses from my grandmother's garden, my paradise as a child, found again here and now in New Mexico. I surrender to the flow, like the river running behind my house near Pecos, New Mexico.