"These watercolours and acrylic paintings are from my new 'Bow Valley Series'. This series was started late in the fall of 1996 and I anticipate developing it over the next two years.

These paintings have a quality of being understated. They are suggesting rather than telling or describing the whole story/picture. They invite participation on the part of the observer. Because something is left unsaid, the beholder is given a chance to complete the idea, to actually become part of the painting.

The reductive gestural black and white acrylic paintings on linen are an extension of the watercolours.

They are an attempt to capture in as few strokes as possible the essence of the feeling of the place of the watercolour. The watercolour itself was an attempt to portray the essence of the feeling, of the place of the Bow Valley."