Artist Statement
I find myself guided by two fundamental intentions in the making of my paintings: one visual and the other philosophical.
Visually, I employ landscape as my muse, with colour and shape as my companions. I explore form, colour, and pattern while allowing each painting to unfold through curiosity, inquiry, and a liminal approach to process—one that enables me to respond intuitively to what is happening on the canvas at any given moment.
There are no pre-determined outcomes or fixed plans for what a finished painting might look like. I surrender to the act of summoning imagery from the blank canvas, balancing the accidental and the unexpected with intentional decision-making, respectfully allowing the work to find its own way into being. I engage in a visual conversation with each piece until we are both satisfied that there is nothing left to say.
This lack of prescription is a conscious choice, one that allows me to remain free to experiment with materials and processes. I incorporate collage, printmaking, drawing, and painting in various ways, building layers of visual and surface history on the canvas.
I explore ideas through sketching, printmaking, and assembling experimental collage pieces. I also sometimes work with clay, all the while looking for suitable mediums, materials and processes to express ideas and find the right resonance between the idea and the expression of it in tangible form. These experiments may later be absorbed into larger works or remain in the studio as signposts marking a direction of travel.
Philosophically, I am concerned with what it means to feel emotion and how the ephemeral human experience can be reimagined through the medium of art—more specifically, through colour, shape, and pattern.
I use landscape as a metaphor for spiritual space in exploring, interpreting, and describing aspects of my own lived emotional experience. Thoughtful wanderings through these internal environments as I'm working in the studio manifest themselves as visual expressions in paint and paper.
September 2025