I began painting after two earlier careers: economics professor and tax lawyer. The work in this show is the most recent in a continuing exploration of ways of combining color, line and images in paint. The "Newsreals" paintings draw on two sources: daily newspaper photos and aerial landscapes.  Both are visually fascinating to me in part because the beauty of the images often belies the tragedy and horror of what they represent. The smaller "Earth Bound" works are abstractions based on aerial photographs. (Statement by the artist, April 2007)