I began as a painter and writer, which I still do. My approach with my photos - which I have come to term photo-impressionism - has proceeded deeper into or across the boundaries of a more painterly perspective. I am caught by textures found all around us, many of which are missed by most people, perhaps as being too minute, ephemeral, inconsequential. I am also working to unearth what sits just beneath our expectations of an image. I find myself asking the question: what does this image carry besides it's optical instant?

Photo-impressionism, as I see it, shifts the focus from "true depiction" to a more true underlying sense of seeing. The sensory world, after all, is relative to many things - our history, our biases, our level of comprehension of reality. I seek to aid these underlying truths to emerge, to be apprehended and fall over our eyes like rain over forests.