People say that my mountain landscape paintings are bold, colorful and peaceful at the same time. As a long-time meditator, I try to practice presence. So I paint the mountain landscape from this perspective. 

My own years as a pilgrim convinced me of the power of mountains as places of spiritual awakening. I've spent over twenty years in the Himalayan foothills studying with Tibetan lamas and Indian yogis, sitting months at a time in silent retreat, learning to see what lies beneath the surface of things. When I paint mountains, I'm not trying to capture the surface or topography. I'm trying to reveal what they showed me: a path to the depth of our being.

Every painting is a mirror of my meditation practice. Each gesture expresses the stillness I learned from those years in meditation retreat. My intention is to express stillness in movement, and movement in stillness. Which means when you bring one of these pieces into your home, you're not just hanging art. You're inviting that same quality of presence into your space.

Collectors tell me the work is vibrant and peaceful at the same time—that it brings them joy and a feeling of deep peace. I love this, because the mountains have taught me this: joy doesn't come from avoiding difficulty. It comes from learning to stand steady through it. Mountains represent resilience to me—they weather every storm and remain. I want these mountain landscape paintings to be a reminder that we all contain this reservoir of resilience within.