My abstract paintings are emotional exhales; every scrape and smudge depicts raw honesty through grungy marks of freedom. I create intuitively, quickly using hard-edge tools, brayers, and acrylics.

here, my feelings and thoughts come through my hands.

It's a safe space to be a wildly messy human.

In the studio

Artist Statement

The focus of my abstract expression is honesty and freedom. Hands relying on intuition and a swirling mind that allows space for trial, questions, mistakes, shifts, and every in between. It happens quickly, often in batches. Each scrape and smudge a release; each stroke a whirling breath. I have ADHD and with it a bell jar of messiness and fumbling. I think a lot. I am plagued with questions. Still, I have learned to find beauty in this gray space where all feelings can play in totality; not just beautiful bits, but even the underbelly scars. Not to be resolved, but to be free.

While my work is expressly emotional, it is not a space where I work out and through my problems. Instead, it is an open space where I am simply honest enough to have them. In the truest sense of letting go with acceptance, in my work, I am free to be messy and me. 

Abstraction is a direct method for manifesting this internal chaos, free from overwhelm; making something not just beautiful, but useful. I create intuitively, quickly using hard-edge tools, brayers, and acrylics. 

Instinctively, I grab tubes of color, canvas boards, wood, or paper, creating without a plan. Each grungy mark informs the next until I take pause, ultimately editing through values and design until the composition feels satisfying and visually takes me. When my shoulders drop in full exhale and I find I've touched on something interesting, a little past the eyes and into the deeper parts of me.

My aim is to create space for pause and consideration, inspiring deeper thought and openness through work that's undefined; giving space to toss ideas and feel all the things we need to. I believe that consistently allowing myself to be fumbly, honest, emotional, and real will encourage and spark the same in others. To accept and love even the weird bits of ourselves is a freedom all its own. There's so much power in that kind of letting go.

None of us really know what the heck we're doing and that's ok. We can be lost, found, and lost again. Tripping, growing, and discovering this wacky life together.

Biography

Work in progress

"Each painting begins with openness. Every scrape and smudge, an exhale. There is no plan but to listen, feel, react, and let go."