The first good quality print-versions of my computer paintings began to appear in the late 1990s. At this time I was actually painting on the computer as much as I was with oils and water media. An interaction between the different processes became quite obvious as I began to think about painting on canvas and paper with computer images in mind. But for the most part, I still regarded the computer work as a completely separate image-realm. 

The above paintings were exhibited as matted works on paper at an open studio event. With them I felt that I was beginning to match some of the impressive imagery I had seen many years earlier. But I still wanted to find ways to bridge an apparent gap between the computer work and everything else. Somehow it still seemed separate and markedly different. One of my “answers” was to bring the computer itself into the studio, to literally create these images in the same workspace as the oils and watercolors. In the end, bridging this gap turned out to be a far more complicated challenge for me. What I finally had to do was think of all my imagery as emerging from the same source in myself. But, needless to say, this is an ongoing process.