VISUAL ART
Painting has been one of my languages for as long as I can remember.
Long before I knew what I was trying to say, color and image gave me a way to say it.
THE NATURE OF MY PAINTINGS
I rarely begin a painting knowing where it will take me. I may be drawn to a color, an image, a movement, or simply the need to make a mark and follow it. One thing leads to another until the painting begins to reveal a language of its own.
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Images and symbols often appear that I wasn’t consciously trying to create. Sometimes I recognize what they carry while I’m working. Other times their meaning doesn’t become clear until much later. I’ve learned not to rush that knowing. Part of painting, for me, is allowing what wants to come through to arrive before my mind tries to explain it.
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There are paintings that have shown me where I was long before I had words for it. Others have carried images or symbols whose meaning I only recognized much later, sometimes when I found myself living what had already appeared in the painting. That is part of why painting has never felt separate from the rest of my life.
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Sometimes the meaning only reveals itself when my life catches up with what I painted.
These are only a glimpse of a much larger body of work
If something here draws you in, the gallery is a place to follow that thread—
to wander through the images, linger with the ones that speak to you,
and discover where your own eye wants to take you.
IN THE STUDIO
SOUL PORTRAITS
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Sometimes my painting becomes a way of seeing another person.
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A Soul Portrait isn’t a likeness of your face. I’m listening for something deeper—for the qualities, energy, and presence that feel uniquely yours. I allow color, image, mark, and symbol to emerge from there, without trying to decide beforehand what the portrait should become.
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What appears is often surprising.
You may recognize parts of yourself immediately. Other parts may take time to understand. The portrait isn’t meant to tell you who you are. It gives you another way to encounter yourself—to see something of your own essence reflected back to you through my eyes and hands.
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Learn more about the Soul Portrait process →
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