This work is shaped by drawing, layering, and a practice of continual exploration. My work is rooted in the quiet, lifelong process of becoming. I paint figures, animals, floral, and symbolic forms as companions to inner life, witnesses to memory, courage, tenderness, and change. Working primarily in mixed media and oil, I allow layers, weathering, and imperfection to remain visible, so the history of the piece becomes part of its meaning.
I am drawn to patina, to what time leaves behind, to surfaces that feel touched by living. Metals, earth tones, ash, and light recur in my palette, not as decoration, but as language, speaking of endurance, fragility, and presence. My figures are not portraits in the traditional sense; they are archetypal, emotional landscapes where viewers can recognize their own thresholds, questions, and quiet strength.
Process is central to my work. I often begin with drawing, burying, distressing, and rebuilding surfaces before arriving at oil, allowing the piece to earn its final form. This slow, intentional making mirrors the way we become ourselves: through layers, through change, through staying with what is unfinished.
My hope is that these paintings do more than hang on a wall. I want them to live with people, as reminders, as companions, as small places of stillness where something true can be felt and remembered.