Artist Statement

I let my imagination illustrate.

My artwork currently explores real and imagined landscapes. Employing color and form to soothe and capture the viewer. Each artwork is an index of my thoughts and emotions: an embrace of watercolor’s unique flow and my intuitive reaction to those properties. Interactions of purples, yellows, blues, oranges, and greens spread out in decisive horizontal strokes and pops of saturated color. My goal is to create a visual playground that sparks otherworldly imagination and wonder.

I hope for my art to take the viewer out of reality for a moment and allow them a space to visually explore and ponder the unique way their own mind fills in the gaps between abstraction and representation. These paintings are also an expression of myself and where I find myself internally and externally. This goal and process, integrated with my interest in creatures, nature, imagination and color, amalgamize into glimpses of my psyche and joy in the physical creative process.

In many of my paintings, I capture moments and places where I felt free, known, or just excited about life. The abstraction of those scenes and colors are arranged on the surface as they are in my mind, as a swirl of thoughts and moments. An extraction of the excitement, recognition, and illustration of my soul. My artwork is a quest to capture that experience on a two-dimensional surface and open the door to further exploration.