As a child, we made numerous trips to my grandparents’ house in the San Fernando Valley and I remember glimpsing bits of landscape as they flashed past the car window. There was something very beautiful about the light and shadows on the hillsides we passed. I wanted to paint them but wasn’t sure if I would be a good enough artist to capture what I saw and felt, but it was the catalyst that has been a lifelong quest that has kept me busy all these years in that pursuit.