ABOUT

The Eastern Shores have shaped the way I see the world. It is a place where wind moves through sunlit trees, carrying salt air from the ocean, and where light and color shift endlessly across the water and horizon, always changing, always familiar. These moments linger in memory, holding a quiet sense of longing, appreciation, and transformation.

When I paint, I follow that feeling. My work emerges from the space where memory and imagination meet, fragments of lived experience and daydreams suspended between what was and what is. Past and present blur, here and elsewhere fold into one another, and nostalgia settles over the surface, not as simple sentiment, but as a layered awareness of time passing. Places soften and distort as they are reimagined, architecture dissolves into landscape, familiar spaces stretch and shift, and light flickers between presence and absence. The environments I paint feel intimate yet unreachable, shaped by distance, like a place once known but never returned to in the same way.

I begin with observation, but I paint from recollection. Moments are distilled into shapes and colors that hover between the recognizable and the abstract. I shape some of my canvases into parallelograms and trapezoids, and allow others to tilt slightly away from the wall to heighten the sensation of shifting perspective. These forms echo the nature of memory itself, some vivid, some fragmented, others warped by time, as if the painting is remembering alongside me.

Painting, for me, is an intentional act of transformation. Through attention, restraint, and care, I shape memory into something new, allowing it to remain open rather than fixed. My work invites viewers into a reflective space where memory and imagination intertwine, where nostalgia unfolds as both longing and appreciation, like the tide carrying fragments of time, place, and feeling that linger, shift, and quietly settle. These paintings offer a place to pause between what was, what is, and what is imagined, all at once.