I’ve been based in San Francisco since 1986 and my work tends to explore what’s unique about this urban terrain.  One of my goals as an artist is to coax viewers into noticing more details about their environment through the experience of looking at or remembering my paintings.  I have both abstract and figurative bodies of work. When I begin a new body of work, I feel like I am learning a new language and, with each new painting, uncovering the rules of its special grammar while at the same time creating its lexicon.