This most current body of work represents a creative direction that began in

the Fall 2011, when I traveled to France with research support from the

University of Minnesota and the McKnight Foundation Imagine Fund. While

in France, I traveled from Paris to the Normandy coast visiting French

Impressionistic landmarks. The most influential component of the trip was

the short period I visited the impressionistic port city of Honfleur. Honfleur is

especially known for its old, beautiful picturesque port, characterized by its

houses with slate-covered frontages, painted many times by artists,

including in particular Gustave Courbet, Eugene Boudin, Claude Monet and

Johan Jongkind, forming the école de Honfleur (Honfleur school) which

contributed to the appearance of the Impressionist movement.