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 studying academic realism for years, I am settling into a new way of working and interpreting life through paint.

Rooted in observations of shapes and textures in nature and filtered through a characteristic palette of teal and coral, the aesthetic of my newest works creates a bridge between realism and poetic abstraction, where forms emerge and dissolve within fluid fields of pigment. In a playful, layered process, textures form and the initial vision gives way to what the painting wants to become – in a dance between control and surrender, intention and chance, presence and time.

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