I am an interdisciplinary artist exploring how our sense of place and identity shifts with time.
I work intuitively, building up layers of marks that I draw within, forming abstracted landscapes filled with hybrid creatures. In these spaces, flora and fauna morph between animal, landscape, and raw paint. Playing hide and seek with us, these elements are constantly shifting identity before disappearing and emerging as something new. What starts as a creature might become a mountain; what seems like sky might transform into fur.
My process involves making oil paint by hand from raw pigments, allowing me to control every aspect of texture and luminosity. I combine this with everyday materials like crayons and colored pencils, along with elements that catch light—24k gold leaf and tiny glass mosaic. These contrasting surfaces create visual tricks where images appear and disappear depending on how you look at them, much like seeing shapes in clouds. Pareidolia is the universal experience of finding familiar shapes in random patterns — I want others to have their own experience playing within my work, perpetually discovering something new.
These imagined worlds and feelings of place come from vivid memories and places I wish I could touch. While they are exploration of my own identity loss and fragmented reformation, they speak to something universal: the feeling that our identity is always shifting, always just out of reach. In painting, that uncertainty becomes a place of freedom rather than anxiety—a world where transformation is natural and nothing has to stay the same.