About The Artist

Artist Statement

In my work, the image does not begin as a symbol or narrative but emerges as a structural necessity within the painting itself. Through the process of painting, forms gradually reveal themselves, and I recognize the figure, animal, or environment as it emerges from the structural relationships within the work. Meaning is discovered through the resolution of form rather than imposed through narrative intention.

The figures in my paintings occupy constructed environments that feel both theatrical and suspended, as if time has paused at a moment of emotional consequence. I seek to give visual form to psychological experience, revealing tensions that exist beneath the surface of intimacy, memory, and desire.

Working in acrylic on birch panel, I build flattened spaces defined by restraint and clarity. Color functions symbolically rather than descriptively: turquoise fields suggest both serenity and estrangement; deep blacks embody instinct and the unknown; sudden reds puncture the calm with urgency. Repeated vertical structures: trees, bars, branches, create subtle divisions within the pictorial space, suggesting boundaries between interior and exterior worlds.

The human figure remains central, often vulnerable and exposed. Having spent many years working as a sculptor, I remain deeply aware of the body as a physical structure; even within shallow pictorial space, these figures retain a sense of mass and gravity. Animals frequently appear alongside the figures, functioning not as narrative elements but as embodiments of instinct, memory, and the shadow self.

Through these relationships of figure, animal, and environment, the paintings hold a moment where emotional, psychological, and symbolic forces coexist in quiet tension. I am less interested in telling a specific story than in creating a space where viewers encounter something recognizable yet unresolved, an image that invites reflection rather than explanation.