ABOUT

Painting is a way for me to revisit experiences and transform them into something new. I'm interested in how memories shift over time, changing as we reflect on them, daydream about them, or view them through a different emotional lens. Rather than preserving a moment exactly as it happened, I use painting to explore what remains, what changes, and what those memories continue to mean.

The Eastern Shores have become a place of reflection and escape for me. Away from the pace of everyday life, I find space to process both difficult and joyful experiences. I'm drawn to the changing light across the water, the glow through a window, and the way familiar places can feel completely different from one moment to the next. These landscapes give me room to pause, allowing memory and imagination to blend together. I often begin with direct observation, but the paintings develop through recollection, becoming as much about feeling as they are about place. What begins as a familiar landscape can become something more layered, holding the tensions of nostalgia: longing and appreciation, familiarity and distance, a place remembered but never fully reachable in the same way again.

My recent body of work explores how personal experiences and memories evolve into a personal mythology. Familiar landscapes, architecture, figures, and fragments of everyday life merge and dissolve into imagined spaces that exist somewhere between memory and daydream. I think of these paintings as a mythology of experiences, taking shape as images of what was felt, remembered, and imagined. Rather than beginning with a fixed story, I allow ideas and associations to emerge through the process of painting, stories that give shape to things felt across different moments.

The shaped canvases also play an important role in this work. Parallelograms and trapezoids distort the traditional picture plane, creating a sense that the spaces within the paintings are shifting or tilting. For me, these forms reflect the way memory works. Some moments remain clear and vivid, while others become fragmented, distorted, or incomplete. The altered canvas allows the structure of the painting to mirror that experience, physically shifting the viewer's perspective as memory shifts our own.

Through painting, experiences become images and feelings take on physical form. These works become part of an internal mythology shaped by memory and imagination. They offer a place to pause, where what was, what is, and what is imagined can exist all at once.