IN THE STUDIO

I’ve been developing a new body of paintings, and I’m excited to share what’s taking shape. The work has surprised me, and I’m still discovering the story as I make it. Below are some behind the scenes shots from my studio.

WORKING ARTIST STATEMENT, OCTOBER 2026

In this developing body of paintings, I explore the uncertain boundary between landscape and the living body. Forms suggest roots, grasses, insects, or neural pathways without settling into a single identity. I am interested in the moment before recognition becomes certain, when something feels familiar but remains difficult to name. These are imagined landscapes shaped by encounters with nature, dreams, and the associations we bring to what we see.

Through layering, removing paint, and building gestural lines, I allow forms to emerge and become obscured again. Drips, branching marks, and sweeping gestures move through passages of density and openness. Pale traces ask for close attention; darker masses create a sense of enclosure. Scale remains unsettled: a network of lines might suggest something beneath the skin or an environment surrounding the viewer. I follow these shifts as I work, allowing the painted surface to redirect my intentions.

My relationship with nature began in childhood, exploring creek beds for fossils and imagining the worlds their traces suggested. That curiosity continues in my attention to growth, erosion, and the histories held within organic forms. My interests in spirituality and Eastern philosophy inform an openness to what cannot be fully explained. Light and darkness become ways of exploring visibility and concealment, intimacy and unease. A shadow can offer shelter while withholding what lies within it.

I want these paintings to sustain an encounter with something that feels alive, even when its identity remains uncertain. The movement between bodily and environmental associations reflects my interest in our place within the biological world. As this work develops, I am asking how a painting can evoke that connection while preserving the mystery of what we are looking at.