Painting directly from nature "En Plein air" for me was never an option. I was not interested in reproducing nature, or realism.I try to find the abstract geometry that is underneath all of nature. The pellets hitting the surface and the fish attacking the pellets make ripples and it becomes an interaction of circles overlapping each other in endlessly complicated ways. That was my way of using nature "en plein air" to inspire the concept of these images. Each of the eight series starts with an original composition and then variations of each were made.