About

Artist Statement

My work begins with familiar things: water, flowers, faces, childhood objects, a ray of light, a remembered photograph, the worn surface of something beloved. I'm drawn to the moment when something ordinary starts to feel larger than itself, a vivid dream come alive. Through painting and digital composition, I explore how memory and imagination can shift scale, mood, and meaning.

The work is rooted in real life. Real people, real places, real objects that carried weight before they ever became paintings or digital compositions. A bowl of cranes given at a memorial. A childhood teapot. A father's welding mask. Some of the work carries joy and wonder. Some carries grief, tension, and questions that don't resolve cleanly.

I spend weeks, sometimes months, with ideas and images accumulating in my mind. Insistent, they won't let me go until the work comes out into form. I work in layers, building depth the way memory works: one moment over another, each still visible beneath. A beach becomes an emotional landscape. A flower becomes a world. A figure becomes both personal and universal.

My digital compositions work differently, built from layered photographs transformed through color, scale, and painterly marks into something that could not exist in any single image. They reach further into the surreal and the charged: childhood imagination, political tension, grief, and the difficulty of letting go. The world as it is felt rather than simply seen.

What I hope viewers find in my work is permission to slow down and notice the extraordinary hiding in plain sight. I want the work to hold joy without forcing cheerfulness, mystery without becoming obscure, and intimacy without becoming private. These are familiar moments, transformed, held close, examined with care, and released back into the world with feeling.