People visit museums for many different reasons, for personal or spiritual inspiration, to inspire creativity, create a personal space for thoughtfulness, to appreciate the skill and thoughts of others, to learn about art history and cultures, to escape the everyday world, for solitude or to interact with other people, to name a few.  These reasons powerfully resonate with me; however, I also have been drawn to observing the ways other people experience the spaces and artworks they encounter in these public edifices.

I love to visit museums when I travel, and have certainly been moved, educated and inspired by exhibits I have seen. However, I also have become enthralled with watching how other people experience these public spaces; how they look at the art, move through the spaces, interact with other visitors, and become a dynamic part of the museum experience. This is what I have strived to document in this series of digital paintings.

Many of these images are composites of multiple photographs, which are then used as references as I layer the photographs to create a finished composition that is digitally painted. The movement, overlapping images and solitary figures are culled from multiple images to be included in a final composition.  Some of the artworks are obscured, some are celebrated, and some have their scale or details changed. Art from Art, inspiration is to be found everywhere.

A continuation of the Museum series, including prints that have been developed form the original digital paintings. For the block prints, I have chosen parts of various compositions and reinterpreted them into block print designs

Prints that have bee adopted from various images in my Museum series. These prints are often cropped, simplified and adjusted to become block prints. 

In this series, I explore the movement of people through public, mostly urban spaces. As I travel, I am often drawn to the people moving through a city, town or landscape, how they intersect and interact with the environment and one another. As the series has progressed, I have been focusing on trying to place the people in less specific locals, making the focus of the artwork the movement of the individuals and groups, rather than placing them into a specific location.

In this series I reinterpret images from my Pedestrian digital paintings into block prints. I often create multiple printing plates from one reference in order to print a series that may include a single plate, be a diptych or a triptych or a print that contains multiple images.

People in public spaces are observed as they ride bicycles or scooters  through the urban environment.

I have found that by observing people as I travel, there is a consistent flow of people walking and riding wheeled vehicles, especially bicycles. These works draw their inspiration of these two modes of travel and their convergence into singular compositions.

Observations of people moving through various specific places in my travels around the world are the focus of this series.

Although much of my work addresses the idea of people in motion, some compositions are tied to specific places from my travels. These compositions not only address my consistent fascination with movement, but also act as personal rememberances of many of the places I have traveled to, both near to home and abroad.

Sometimes I create artworks that do not fit into easy categories. Sometime I just have to play! This was especially true during the pandemic, when I was not able to travel, observe people in groups or do public activities.