artist statement

i paint with joy. i am painting for painting’s sake, and my true goal is to inhabit and share an enchanted state.

my work has a strong focus on atmosphere, light effects, and color relationships. i am unconcerned with narrative and description. to me, a subject is simply an architecture for the expression of my experience. there is nothing narrative or symbolic in my work; there are only attempts to capture optical sensations and internal feelings.

i work in oil paint, preferring to work from life. the source material 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 thoughtfully, allowing space for their own sensations and emotional responses to surface.