Statement

My work explores how attention shapes perception. My paintings are quiet, yet they hold their presence, offering a counterweight to the speed and visual noise of contemporary life.

Structure, rhythm, and subtle tonal variation shape the work. The Moiré series, developed during the isolation of Covid, is the most vivid, loud, and visually active period of my practice. In a world that had suddenly fallen quiet, the color intensified as an internal response to an unusually still and quiet world. As daily life returned to its familiar noise and acceleration, my palette moved in the opposite direction. The Zen and Water series became calmer, more reduced, and more deliberate, an intentional softness against a loud world. Natural materials including sand, stone, wood, and silk appear throughout my work as grounded elements, both in source and in intention. My art is not a record of what I feel but a response to what I need.

My work gives me balance; it is not meant to impose or explain. The paintings create a space for the viewers, whatever they encounter in that time belongs to them, not to me. That ability to create space rather than occupy it is what gives the work its strength.