Artist Statement

My paintings explore the relationship between landscape, memory, and belonging. People today are often overstimulated by digital noise and increasingly disconnected from the environments that shape their lives. My artwork invites viewers to slow down, reconnect with the landscape, and feel grounded in the present.

My family’s history is marked by movement and change across geography and time, and I often feel suspended between places: the environments of my childhood, the lands my ancestors once inhabited, and the places I call home today. Painting becomes a way of engaging directly with my surroundings and grounding myself within a shared lineage of land, memory, and quiet observation.

I am often drawn to subjects at the intersection of the built and natural world. In a time when so much of life is mediated through technology, this focus brings attention back to what is local, physical, and quietly observed. These are places where moments of stillness can be found within otherwise active and changing environments. 

My work balances precise observation with looser, more fluid marks. Areas of defined structure sit alongside washes, drips, and granulating textures that allow the image to soften or partially dissolve. This tension between control and instability echoes the way recollection shapes our experience of place, holding both intensity and stillness within a single moment of perception.