Hey There

I create because I am curious about what happens when I stop trying to control the outcome.

 

My work begins with play—with a mark, a color, a shape, a piece of paper, a blob of paint—and grows through a process of responding, questioning, covering, uncovering, and following whatever feels alive in the moment. I work intuitively, often without knowing exactly where a piece is going. Instead of forcing an idea into existence, I allow the work to reveal itself through the process.

 

I am drawn to bold color, brash marks, unexpected combinations, and the space between abstraction and recognition. I want my work to feel alive—to hold evidence of the decisions, mistakes, impulses, and discoveries that brought it into being. I’m interested in pushing an image until it begins to shift between something familiar and something impossible to quite name.

 

At the heart of my practice is a desire to remain open. I want to make work without hiding from uncertainty, without being afraid of an idea that might fail, and without dismissing an unexpected direction simply because it wasn’t part of the original plan. There is freedom in allowing a painting or collage to become something different from what I imagined.

 

My inspiration comes from the world around me, but also from the inner world—memory, emotion, relationships, contradiction, desire, humor, discomfort, beauty, and the strange ways these things overlap. I am interested in the places where opposites can exist together: softness and intensity, chaos and cohesion, vulnerability and confidence, the recognizable and the abstract.

 

Ultimately, I make art as a way of paying attention. It is how I explore, process, question, and communicate. I want the work to invite that same sense of curiosity in the viewer—to create a moment where they can slow down, look a little longer, and find something of their own within it.

 

I don’t want every piece to tell you exactly what to see.

 

I want it to give you somewhere to look.