For seventeen years I have lived in Nashville, first as a music student and eventually as a painter. Over time the city became my subject and, more than anything else, my artistic education. What I paint now came out of learning to look at what was already in front of me. My commute was the landscape.

Nolensville Road is where most of that happened. The corridor is vivid and specific, dense with culture, color, and life, just not the kind that tends to get treated as artistic subject matter. Spending enough time there, on location, in changing light, I started to find it worth painting. The subjects that don't announce themselves as worthy of attention are often the most interesting ones. That became the operating principle of my practice.

I work across sketching, watercolor, and oil, both on site and in the studio. Some pieces are made quickly, in response to immediate conditions, light, movement, weather. Others are developed more fully from reference, where I can test what held and what shifted in memory. The two modes inform each other. In both cases, I am less interested in transcription than in how a place is perceived, remembered, and ultimately translated into an image.