My painting practice begins with lived experience. I create medium- to large-scale oil paintings drawn from everyday life—familiar interiors, objects, plants, people, and moments that hold personal significance. Drawing from observation, visual references, and invention, I use these experiences as starting points for paintings that develop their own visual and emotional logic. Through color, composition, gesture, and the physical qualities of paint, recognizable subjects become transformed through the process of painting.

I am interested in how familiar places and moments accumulate emotional meaning, and how color can alter the way a place is experienced. I paint interiors as well as people within their surroundings, exploring memory, connection, and the passage of time. I respond intuitively to color, building relationships that feel dynamic yet resolved. For me, the physical act of painting is not separate from the subject; how I paint becomes part of what the work communicates, often allowing meaning to emerge through the process.

Experimentation with paint is central to my process. I explore brushwork, viscosity, movement, and the effects of working quickly or deliberately. Structural elements provide frameworks that can be disrupted or reshaped through color and gesture. I am drawn to oil paint for its ability to hold both clarity and ambiguity, allowing familiar subjects and moments to remain recognizable while becoming transformed through surface, color, and accumulated decisions.