Artist’s statement

My work explores how surfaces reveal the passage of time: the movements of weather, the seams, cracks and openings of landscapes, processes of aging and the forces that move beneath and shape surfaces. The tension between will, intuition and nature, the act of surrender and the play between movement and stillness are constants for me.

My approach to painting is both intuitive and meticulously structured: a physical, improvisational conversation between mind and materials. Acrylics build texture and history; oils give depth and luminosity. I sometimes think of myself as weather patterns moving across landscapes and of the ways thoughts arise and fade as I sculpt, scrape, build and dissolve. The process becomes a palimpsest; a record of time spent in conversation, of impressions, of a seam that reveals life beneath the skin — a window into the interiority of experience.

I am interested in abstraction, perhaps because it leaves a lot to the imagination and does not pretend to identify form. At the same time, I leave traces — like a map exposed for years to the elements — traces of subject, perspective, happenstance and of the phenomena that I find most compelling. And I am always intrigued by the strange, absurd intelligence and juxtapositionry of the dreamworld.

I seek to create work that is alive: dynamic, unself-conscious and wild — that whispers metaphors and suggests without over-explaining. Work that communicates humor, reverence sublimity and chaos simultaneously. Each piece is a threshold: a place to dwell in questions, to remain within the eye of the storm and to mark the unfolding of something larger than the personal.