artist statement

my work intends to elicit emotion through a strong focus on atmosphere, light effects, and color relationships. i am unconcerned with narrative and description. structure is unimportant. i believe in achieving a sense of awe by translating a scene into something akin to a memory.

for my purposes, the subject is simply an architecture for the expression of my experience. there is nothing narrative or symbolic in my work; there are only attempts at capturing internal feelings and physical, optical sensations. i work in oil paint, mostly from life, although i have been opening up to the idea of using photographs and various source materials as my compositional architectures. the source material, after all, whether a photograph or scene from life, is nothing more than a structural framework that can be altered or exaggerated in order to express something that is true and transferrable. my tools are simple: i typically use two sizes of filbert brush, a limited range of pigments, and little to no medium. my paintings are completed in alternating stages of either line or color, keeping the process from becoming convoluted, keeping myself from getting lost.   

within broader contemporary painting, my work aligns with ongoing conversations around perception, phenomenology, and the capacity of painting to communicate experience without narrative. i am interested in how minimal means and attentive looking can produce an emotional resonance that feels both personal and broad. i hope viewers encounter the work slowly, allowing space for their own sensations and emotional responses to surface.