My work draws from the natural world, but is driven by something more personal — a commitment to joy as a serious artistic position. Still life, the animal kingdom, and my own personal narrative all serve the same purpose: to build a visual language around celebration, pleasure, and the transformation of the ordinary into occasion. These are not incidental moods. They are the subject.
My paintings are deeply autobiographical without being confessional. The objects, creatures, and imagery I return to carry the weight of lived experience — desires, memories, and a genuine belief that beauty and festivity need not be saved for special moments, but can be claimed, painted, and lived every day.
I work primarily in realism, in oil on canvas with 23-karat gold and metal leaf. The metallic surface does something paint alone cannot — it shifts with available light, reflects its surroundings, and draws the viewer into the work itself. For me, this is not a technical choice. It is a philosophical one. Impermanence and presence, held in the same plane.
This belief in dialogue extends beyond the canvas. I exhibit actively because I am convinced that a painting fully comes alive only in the presence of a viewer — when light shifts, reflections change, and the work begins its conversation with the space and the person standing before it.