Artist Statement
I am interested in painting as a container for the psychological, as well as an escape, or release valve. Drawing from gothic modes of depiction and storytelling, I construct metaphors, paradoxes, and dualisms, often with weather and landscape as their vehicle. My sensibilities with painting are influenced by film - I am sensitive to considerations such as frame, point-of-view, speed, focus, fade, saturation, and how these elements can create an immersive scene, place the viewer, and foster narrative. I have proclivities for the fantastical, the liminal, and the sublime which are abiding themes and sensations I work to evoke.
