Artist Statement

My paintings unfold gradually and intuitively through layers of accumulated oil paint. I think of them as emotional and internal landscapes—spaces for reflection, discovery, and possibility. The work is intentionally open-ended. Titles are not definitions or narratives, but companions to the language of the paint itself. I want to leave room for viewers to enter with their own histories, emotions, and imagination.

Painting, for me, is an act of listening, remembering, and becoming—an ongoing movement from density toward light.

I believe in an abundance of goodness and beauty and in our individual responsibility to cultivate this within ourselves so that we can share it with one another. My work is about this — about this process of nurturing something into bloom. Being self-taught has given me the freedom to break all of the rules I never knew and the freedom to paint without fear. I rejoice in this freedom — it keeps me painting from the inside out, happy and sincere.