My practice stages the natural environment as a hyperreality in which painted landscapes exist only as collages of pre-existing images. I combine fragments from multiple photographs into a singular scene that I then replicate in oil on canvas. I aim to invoke the earth’s essence, inviting you to see, smell and hear a landscape that does not exist.

Within my painted simulations, I focus on trees in all their variety, from the haunting stillness of the Bald Cypress to the mighty English Oak. These living sculptures shape our landscapes; they are silent witnesses to our history and the natural world. I encourage you to see these quiet, majestic beings through a manufactured lens.