Whether it is the intensely golden light at dusk highlighting branches, giving the tree tops soft washes of color that define their shape...

Or the cool light of my car's headlights that create a black and white landscape in motion...

I want to photograph, paint, write poetry, and capture the moment when I saw perfection in the landscape.

Given the transient nature of light, a vignette lasts at the most 10 to 15 minutes, and then it is gone. It makes what I see and understand all the more precious. In my work I just borrow the pieces and try to rearrange them to form new compositions for the spirit. My goal is for my clients to have a spiritual gift each time they are aware of their surroundings.

Visualization

I'm a very visual person. I'm always looking at the patterns of the natural world - the compositional elements of color, light, texture, hard lines...

What I see...

I see the setting sun, the sun coming down at an angle and reflecting up into people's eyes... their face... and the golden light that comes there. And for me this is one of the over-arching qualities of the site that will play out into the late afternoon.

Practical Magic…

The circulation and functionality of what the client intends [to do in their home] and how they intend to experience the space also gives rules to how we solve the problem or provide the resolution. I envision them there and ask myself: what would be the optimal, most magical moment when the light would be perfect? When the sunsets will be glorious and that golden light reflects off the back drop. Whether or not you want to look through vegetation and have the grasses or the hydrangeas back lit - to give it that added boost of mystery - or stare straight out the sea. I work to envision the space with all of my senses before I have even drawn it.