Artist Statement
I make paintings that explore subjective realities and what happens when they intersect. My studio practice moves back-and-forth between study, contemplation and expression, drawing on both direct experience and cross-disciplinary investigation to look at the subtle and often contradictory and ambiguous ways reality is encountered and understood.
Underlying the work is an ongoing interest in the variability of perception: the ways individual sensation, belief, emotion, and experience mediate how reality is interpreted and lived. I am deeply curious about encounters between whole selves and what passes between them, and about the ways these exchanges can alter how we experience ourselves and reality.
Working in both oils and watercolor, painting and symbols are my language. I am drawn to paint's tactile presence and its capacity to carry ambiguity, emotion, and experience within a single image. I use the human figure as a conduit for psychological and social experience. My painting process is slow, layered and intuitive. Engagement with materials allows images to emerge while holding space for uncertainty and unknowing as long as possible.
My practice is a form of contemplation and synthesis, a way to listen, question, and make sense of experience.