Trained in the sciences of plant ecology, remote sensing, and geomorphology, for thirty years I used low-level airphotos, point and transect sampling, and some satellite imagery to find spatial answers to specific scientific questions. Across five continents my mapping experiences gave me a strong curiosity for terrain processes and for the aesthetics of landform. In recent years I have been exploring as art the countless examples of the earth's broadscale beauty.

My cartography has always focused on raster/gridcell maps (as opposed to boundary or line maps), which has forced a lifelong study of the use of color to evoke distributions. From the mid 1970s, I've been using computers and digital maps to compile spatial illustrations, and my forty years of avid photography included a very early transition to digital equipment.

After my child years on a dairy farm in the Connecticut Berkshires, summering in the wilds of the Adirondacks, I chose a university in Colorado primarily on a landscape basis. The high plains, canyons, and big mountains framed places unlike any I had known. I continued to explore exotic terrains during my decade of living and working in Kenya and West Java, and during mapping assignments in a dozen other countries.

Over the last three years, with the advent of better digital toolkits and printers, I've taken advantage of the wonderful online spatial data sources to investigate and display what I consider to be especially fine patches of the earth's terrain. With subtle palettes and a detailed rendering of topographic shadow, I try to bring realism and a respect for landscapes to people who perhaps have never felt such stimulus. In March of 2006 my Plains of Tidikelt was accepted at a juried show at the San Diego Art Institute. In April I presented 21 works at Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art for their Earth Day celebration. In midsummer the Artkudos.com yearly online exhibit accepted one of my pieces (Above Yunyang). Finally in October 06 another juried San Diego show, The Art of the Digital, accepted my piece The Bosporus.

I have recently joined Ithaca’s State of the Art Gallery cooperative to enhance my local colleagueship. Recognizing that most of my material is not particularly suited to the quaint living spaces to which most of us aspire, I will this winter be contacting large educational, scientific, transportation, and corporate institutions to try to place pieces in larger public interiors.