Artist Statement
I make oil paintings that explore perception, consciousness, and the shifting nature of lived experience. Working through figurative imagery, I use the human figure as a vehicle for psychological, emotional, and symbolic experience. My paintings move between contemplation and expression, drawing on direct experience to investigate the subtle, intuitive, and often contradictory ways reality is felt, understood, and remembered.
Underlying the work is an ongoing interest in the variability of perception: the ways physical sensation, memory, belief, emotion, and experience shape how reality is understood and lived. I am interested in the space between shared reality and individual experience, and in the ways perception shapes both the worlds we inhabit and the ways we move through them together.
My process is one of presence: slow and layered, allowing images to emerge through observation, uncertainty, and reflection. The imagery develops through an engagement with both observable experience and the psychological, intuitive, and symbolic dimensions through which experience is interpreted and understood.
While experimentation in other media informs my process, painting remains my primary language. I am drawn to its tactile presence and to the unique capacity of oil paint to hold ambiguity, emotion, and time within a single image.
For me, painting is a form of contemplation and synthesis, a way to listen, question, and translate experience into image.