My focus turned further from the literal in the late 1980’s to include surrealism and its examination of the character of human existence found in myth and dream imagery.   In the early 1990’s California and French impressionist paintings caught my attention by virtue of a vitality that wasn’t intrinsic to the landscapes or people they portrayed.  Later in the nineties, I ventured into abstraction and severed all connections to the literal world.  

By the early 2000’s I had lived without realism long enough to entertain small doses of it in my current work.  The difference now is the subordination of realism to a native expression that frees the viewer from a single interpretation. 

In 33 years I have received over 40 awards, seven of them for Best of Show.  In 2009 my painting, Homestead, won First Place at the 50^th Edmonds Arts Festival.