Inspired by artists as diverse as the Fauvists Dufy, Derain and de Vlaminck, Paul Klee, Kandinsky's Blue Rider group, the German Expressionists, Picasso, Matisse, American artists Grace Hartigan and Jason Berger, and English painters Ivon Hitchens and Keith Vaughan, my works attempt to re-imagine the everyday world in a new form with color, energetic paint application and the elimination of unnecessary detail. I attempt to take everything successful in a painting and have it available for use in any subsequent work. My latest works consist of an ongoing series of expressionist winter landscapes, inspired by the extreme weather which occurred recently here in the Bay State. My goal is to do works that do not give up their secrets on the initial encounter, but continue to interest viewers and surprise them over time.