I am inspired by the great nature artists of the 18th and 19th centuries: their stark white backgrounds, obsessive detail, and quest to catalog nature’s prodigious formal invention. This meeting of art and science is contemporary — again.

But unlike those masters — who idealized the perfect specimen — I seek out a feral botany, found literally off the beaten path. More portrait than a still life, I depict subjects that are akin to us: vibrant, complex, graceful, but also vulnerable, malignant, mortal.

Click on the thumbnails to the right or follow the links below to view more work:

Botanical Art

Projects: Everything for the Garden!

Projects: Marfa Mural

Projects: Turf

Projects: Overgrown

Book: As the Crow Flies