STATEMENT OF WORK

My paintings function as contemporary allegories, reflecting a world in flux where the lines between symbol and story, figure and ground, begin to dissolve. Animals appear often, especially horses, as vessels for human feeling: fractured, watchful, caught between flight and stillness. The landscapes I paint are precarious, half-real spaces that sit somewhere between memory, metaphor, and myth.

I’m interested in perception that unfolds slowly, when an image seems to hold something just beneath the surface. The compositions often contain quiet doubling or recursive forms, as if they’re folding back on themselves. 

Color acts as a kind of emotional architecture. I use it to distort, to condense, to heighten. Saturated reds and electric blues bring a charged stillness to the work, allowing the familiar to slip toward the uncanny, into the nocturne. I want the viewer to feel unsettled, yet also gently held, as if stepping into a moment that’s at once personal and collective, intimate and remote.

These paintings don’t aim to solve or explain. Instead, they offer a space to witness, to look again, to feel a bit more slowly. In moments of rupture or uncertainty, that act can be its own form of recognition.