I make all my drawings from imagination, which is a method I have followed for over thirty years. When I draw I try to relax and let the important things float to the top, so that the images represent the most essential aspects of what I know. Since I started working with the figure-in-landscape subject many years ago, my intent has remained basically the same: to represent human figures in a landscape space in such a way as to reveal something of life experience. The landscape represented in my figure works changed a bit six years ago when my wife and I bought an old farm house in Eliot, Maine, which has a barn that we subsequently turned into studios for both of us. Even before we moved into the house my images started to reflect a country road type of environment. And here is how my methodology works: I walk...or drive...I look...I remember...and later I draw. Although I am sure another artist would characterize the environment in a much different way, what I come up with is a reflection of what I see in the places closest to me. These drawings were made on bristol board glued to panels before the work was executed. I got the idea to apply the paper to panels because I wanted the finished work to be a sturdier object that might not necessarily need to be framed. I applied powdered graphite to the paper to create a toned ground and, after a bit of distressing of the surface, I made a pencil drawing on top of this. So the drawings are basically pencil drawings done with a 2B lead.