Artist Statement:
Landscape painting is both a calling and a form of sustenance for me—art is my way of making sense of the world.
My paintings emerge from an intimate engagement with landscape. My current focus is on water —both inland and coastal. I am interested in how water shapes land over time and how its movement—through drought, flood, and tide—echoes broader environmental instability. The layered nature of my process mirrors this instability. By adding, scraping, and reworking paint, I create surfaces that suggest concealment and revelation, presence and obliteration.
Looking at water is also a way of looking into the landscape itself, where nature reflects and transforms its own structures. I feel an increasing urgency to paint water as it becomes ever more vital to our survival in the face of climate change. Through this work, I seek moments of balance and beauty within a world marked by environmental fragility and rapid change.
Landscape painting is both a calling and a form of sustenance for me—art is my way of making sense of the world.
My paintings emerge from an intimate engagement with landscape. My current focus is on water —both inland and coastal. I am interested in how water shapes land over time and how its movement—through drought, flood, and tide—echoes broader environmental instability. The layered nature of my process mirrors this instability. By adding, scraping, and reworking paint, I create surfaces that suggest concealment and revelation, presence and obliteration.
Looking at water is also a way of looking into the landscape itself, where nature reflects and transforms its own structures. I feel an increasing urgency to paint water as it becomes ever more vital to our survival in the face of climate change. Through this work, I seek moments of balance and beauty within a world marked by environmental fragility and rapid change.
