My paintings are composed of pieces of or elements of landscape.  Using photographs I take of my surroundings as raw material, I'm able to juxtapose atmosphere, light, color, shape and texture in ways that can be literal, conceptual or even abstract.  I play with mood and reality.  My method is to cut, splice, rearrange and sometimes even turn images upside down.  Sometimes the intent is to be evocative and unsettling.  For example, I may use images from different places and different times of the day in the same painting and even though they may work in a visually formal way, they are not literally "right".;  This creates a tension between what you seen and what you know.  Something similar may happen when I use a piece of sky as a body of water or tree tops as the visual equivalent of mountains or islands.  On the other hand, sometimes the intent is to create traditional harmonies of landscape with urban and man-made elements: telephone wires, suburban shrubs, industrial or commercial buildings.  This is what I enjoy most:  the creating of a "new", non-documentary landscape.