Growing up under open skies — roaming forests and working the soil through every season — immersed me in the elements and taught me to see the world as shifting atmospheres rather than fixed forms. After years of studying academic realism, I’m now settling into a new way of working and interpreting life through paint.

Rooted in observations of shape and texture in nature, and filtered through a characteristic palette of teal and coral, the aesthetic of my newest work lets forms emerge and dissolve within fluid fields of pigment. Through a layered process, texture builds and the initial vision gives way to what the painting wants to become — a dance between control and surrender, intention and chance, presence and time.

This process mirrors the way I feel my way through the world: appreciative of its vibrancy and layered depth, fully embracing the vulnerability of uncertainty and change — always searching for poetry within the full spectrum of human experience.