STATEMENT OF WORK

Working with oil paint on stretched linen, as well as on paper and transparent film, I create vibrantly colored paintings that explore chimeric landscapes. Recurring motifs of portals and archways serve as imagined gateways between the known and the unknown. My work is rooted in an exploration of unknowability as it pertains to death, birth, motherhood, and nature, and I see the unknown as a potent form of feminine power, standing in contrast to masculine pursuits of dominance and control.

I seek to imbue my paintings with a sense that transformation is not only possible but imminent. Sometimes this manifests as light breaking through clouds, pools of water dissolving into fields of color, or the simple outline of a tree or fountain appearing or disappearing, as if caught in the act of becoming. I want the paintings to feel perched on the cusp of change—because that feels hopeful, and because in a fraught and uncertain world, I want to believe in our ability to transform.

In my work, portals exist as thresholds—places where transformation occurs beyond our view, beyond the painting’s edge. While the paintings often read as landscapes, to me they are more like portraits of what it feels like to sit with uncertainty and still embody strength. Ultimately, my paintings offer a response to a contemporary world marked by violence and disconnection, proposing instead an alternate reality shaped by softness, empathy, and connection.