ABOUT MY WORK
… for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God …
Hebrews 11, The Holy Bible
The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins said, “We live in a world charged with the grandeur of God”… and how often we pass it by heedlessly. For me, the artist’s calling is to reawaken lost vision: the luminous stillness of the meadow at dusk, the noble hush of mountain ridge and pine, the dance of light upon coastal waters … through the language of painting, I seek to voice what creation itself speaks daily—that behind a meaningful world of many beauties there lies the hand of a Maker.
My inspiration flows from both Christian scripture and the old classical writers—from C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and the Psalms, to Wordsworth, Cowper, and Hopkins. Their vision of nature is not sentimental, but revelatory: they saw in fields and skies not just matter, but message; and in that same spirit I delight and paint. I wish to bring the viewer not merely calm, but remembrance: that goodness endures, that beauty still speaks, and that through it, The Almighty is calling to our inward soul.
“That which may be known of God is manifest to them, for God has shown it unto them… being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal Power and Godhead.”
—The Holy Bible
“Familiar with the effect we slight the cause…
From dearth to plenty, and from death to life,
Is Nature’s progress when she lectures man
In heavenly truth.”
—William Cowper
So why “Treasures of Logres”?
“Logres” was the Arthurian name used by C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams to refer to a hidden, inner Britain—the God-ordained spiritual heart of the land, often veiled beneath the surface of ordinary history. It was the truer England that was called to be, pitted against the eviscerated England that was emerging—a struggle between two Englands. I see the same concept in the true America behind America. In That Hideous Strength, Lewis contrasts “Britain” (a nation that was losing its true moral and spiritual foundations) with “Logres” (its deeper, sacred vocation – the beauties at heart it had once held, and still yet held in part).
This also reflects a belief that our world holds layers of meaning, and that behind even ordinary things in a fallen world—the goodness within family, society and creation all about us—divine and eternal realities quietly shine through.
Treasures of Logres is named in that spirit. The art seeks to capture glimpses of the sacred within the everyday—to point not just to scenic beauty, but to the transfigured world, a world seen with spiritual eyes. It is, in a sense, art from an America behind America, a Logres of the New World, echoing the same longing and wonder Lewis found in his own land. And in that understanding, my art pieces present small invitations to see into that vision and calling.
