My paintings fuse my quite serious concerns about the environmental crisis we face with my love for the absurd. I am particularly concerned with the effects of rampant development on the wildlife we share the planet with. In my imaginary world, animals revolt against the juggernaut that sees endless pavement as progress.

I call my work "environmental surrealism". Influences include kitschy portrayals of animals that one sees in mass-marketed popular culture, the nightmarish imagery of Hieronymus Bosch, the writings of Edward Abbey, and my work as a wildlife rehabilitator. My cute but naughty animals are having a good deal of fun turning our superiority on its head by demolishing industrial objects. Grizzly bears with jackhammers "restoring" a freeway, a mountain lion with an acetylene torch decommissioning a bulldozer, arctic wildlife laying waste to a Hummer dealership and animals tearing down billboards for housing developments are some of the characters who populate my paintings.

These paintings deconstruct the assumption of human superiority to other species by giving my view of what might transpire if animals took control over the fate of the planet.

I offer my work as cultural resistance to the destruction of the Earth.