Artist Statement

My paintings explore the phenomenon of light and color. I’m interested in how flat, rigid forms can suggest depth, motion, and resonance through nothing more than color and spatial relationship. The diagonals and linear elements suggest a type of movement that happens within the paintings. Architecture has helped inform my process but is not the main focal point. I think of these works as visual conversations between control and chance, where a sharp magenta line might interrupt a field of calm, or a quiet beige might hold a loud green in place. While not trying to depict anything representational, there are components that suggest something we can refer to in the physical world like a birds eye view perspective or how the landscape moves through a window. Each composition is built from a process of layering intersecting lines, planes, and forms, creating visual systems that feel both precise and open-ended. I want the vibrant colors and complex layers to produce an energy as if the painting is alive, where color and its saturation produce a sensation of illumination or light. My paintings propose an ongoing conversation between them.