
I am a painter working at the intersection of the urban, the natural, and the wild, exploring moments of movement, pause, and quiet transition. My work is less about depicting specific places and more about capturing how it feels to move through the world: how light shifts, how figures pass through, how a plant grows unasked at the road's edge, how a person and an animal arrive at a moment of wordless understanding.
My paintings are organized into three series. Passage explores urban figures in motion: streets, paths, bridges, and tree-lined walkways as stages for reflection. Selvage turns toward the wild and overlooked botanical world, finding beauty in thistles, wildflowers, and everything that grows without permission. Keeping Company examines the tender connections between people and animals, both wild and domestic.
Across all three, figures and living things appear caught between one moment and the next, their stories intentionally open. Shadows stretch, light gathers, and weather subtly alters the atmosphere. These works invite the viewer to step into the space emotionally rather than observe it from a distance.
I work primarily in mixed media. This layered process allows me to build depth while preserving spontaneity. Gesture, texture, and color guide each piece, and I allow the work to evolve intuitively rather than toward a fixed outcome. The result is a balance between structure and softness; between control and release.
My approach to painting has been shaped by both landscape and lived experience. Growing up surrounded by nature instilled an early sensitivity to rhythm, light, and stillness. Later, living with an inherited neuro-muscular tremor changed the way I work physically. Rather than resisting this, I embraced it as part of the process. The slight unpredictability of my mark‑making has become a collaborator, encouraging looseness and presence over precision.
Whether set in a city street, a wild hedgerow, or a quiet moment between a person and an animal, each painting is an invitation to pause. I am drawn to moments when nothing dramatic is happening; when a person is simply walking, waiting, or resting within a larger environment, when a plant is simply growing where it landed, when two creatures are simply together. These in‑between moments are where I find meaning, memory, and emotional resonance.
All works shown are original, one‑of‑a‑kind paintings.
