Artist Statement

Painting, for me, is an intellectual, psychological, and spiritual pursuit. I make medium- to large-scale oil paintings drawn from everyday life—family, activities, events, and environments that resonate with me emotionally or psychologically. Whether working from observation, memory and invention, or photographic reference, I am interested in transforming lived experience into paintings that feel emotionally present and reflective.

I paint these subjects because they allow me to examine states of attention, emotion, and presence. Ordinary moments become a way to explore broader psychological and human experiences. Rather than simply documenting a scene, I use painting to investigate how color, gesture, and structure can communicate tension, intimacy, contemplation, or instability. I aim to create works that feel emotionally charged while remaining open-ended.

Experimentation is central to my process. Oil paint remains my favored medium because of its plasticity and extended working time, allowing me to work both intuitively and deliberately. I respond intuitively to color and strive to create relationships that feel both dynamic and resolved. My brushwork is planar and gestural—sometimes akin to handwriting—with variations in speed, viscosity, and economy of mark-making contributing as much to the content as the imagery itself. These formal decisions allow the paintings to develop a dual identity: both a physical object and a psychological space.

The challenges and decisions inherent to painting continue to captivate me, and curiosity remains at the core of my practice. I hope viewers experience the work as both visually immediate and psychologically suggestive—paintings that invite sustained looking, emotional resonance, and personal interpretation.