Artist Statement                                                                             

I was the kid who always came home covered in dirt after a long day of playing, and that spirit has never left me. I still approach painting with the same desire for immersion, spontaneity, and physical engagement. The more paint I’m covered in after a day in the studio, the more connected I feel to the work.

In my paintings, I explore ideas of beauty, perception, and instability through color, shape, and material force. I begin with spontaneous mark-making, allowing viscosity, gravity, and chance interactions between materials to guide the process and create an intuitive surface. From there, I shape and edit the chaos, building compositions where recognizable figures emerge through accumulation, erosion, and disruption. Layers are poured, dragged, scraped, and obscured, producing forms that hover between presence and disappearance.

My paintings are meant to feel like beautiful, shifting worlds where time, logic, and certainty fall away. I want viewers to step into them, surrender to ambiguity, and interpret the experience in their own way.