artist statement

My practice has evolved from traditional painting on canvas towards shaped paintings and, more recently, free-standing works that exist between painting, object, and installation. Through walking, observation, collecting, and material experimentation, I explore the shifting relationships between body, material, space, and time.

The work often begins outside the studio, through walking and observation. I am drawn to textures, patterns, lines and structures found in both natural and urban environments: tree bark, lichen, shadows, tidal sand formations, weathered surfaces, and eroded structures. These signs of growth, decay, and transformation inform my choice of materials and my approach to making.

My process is physical and intuitive. Working primarily on the floor, I paint on loose fabrics using my hands, body, and plants as improvised brushes. I walk across surfaces, press, layer, and crush materials, trace bodily forms, and incorporate natural elements gathered during my walks, such as pine needles and branches. Through processes of accumulation and removal, I build tactile surfaces and forms using pigments, oil paint, clay, sand, rust, crushed leaves, paper pulp, and other organic matter. I am particularly interested in materials that crack, weather, and transform over time. Their instability becomes part of the work, reflecting vulnerability, impermanence, and continual change.

In recent works, painting has expanded beyond the flat surface into sculptural and spatial forms. Free-standing structures supported by tree branches, shaped canvas compositions, and concrete casts made from shadow drawings in sand extend into space, creating relationships between artwork, body, and the surrounding environment. Alongside painting and sculptural work, I create frottage drawings directly from surfaces encountered outdoors. Rather than representing specific places, these works record touch, texture, movement, and physical encounters with place. My creative process is an ongoing dialogue between control and unpredictability, exploring transformation, interconnection, and the traces left through our interactions with the world around us.