The healing qualities of art have always been the concern of the masters. Henri Matisse said: "What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter." 

I traveled from Florida to New Hampshire to California in search of the perfect subject matter: the full voluptuous forms of my abstract work, the strong feel for the light and its source of my photorealism work.

Most of all, I had a vision of creating paintings so outstanding, so beautiful, they would take my breath away.  

I found all I was looking for and more in the awesome caverns and caves and canyons of the great American Southwest.