My paintings grow out of close looking—returning again and again to ordinary moments to investigate the life within them, and to make something interior visible. I’m drawn to figures at rest, tables set with familiar objects, and rooms or gardens where little appears to be happening. These are not dramatic scenes, but they are emotionally active ones. The work becomes a practice of attention: noticing how color, posture, surface, and proximity carry meaning.
Color is the heartbeat of my practice. Through saturated, intense palettes, I explore warmth, discomfort, care, and other things that are felt more than seen. I’m interested in surfaces and the quiet relationships between them—the way objects, bodies, and spaces hold and reflect one another.
As a museum educator and curator, I champion slow looking. In my painting, that commitment becomes a way of engaging the layered, shifting life that surrounds us every day.
