I paint abstracts in oil, often featuring color gradients and luminosity, as well as a mix of flowing and static elements. These elements combined create atmospheric, spacious images that hold fine detail. I use materials that are close to their unrefined state, such as natural pigments and organic oil. The natural ingredients feel full of life. My studio is as non-toxic and non-harmful for humans and the environment as possible. That is why you will not find certain colors (e.g., cobalts) in my work.

 

During my art making, I tone and hum, which are frequencies expressed in sound. Sometimes I pause to play the harp. These sounds accompany the expression through colors and shapes as I paint. Throughout my process, I allow myself to halt, to come back to a vast-feeling state of being. In the most authentic moments of my painting, I don’t think or have any emotions; I am. It is a very receptive and responsive state. I paint for the expression of my frequency and of those I sense wanting to be captured by me. So, some paintings seem to appear, layer by layer onto the canvas or panel. Others emerge in an intentional dialogue with the quality I sense and my acts of painting. I wonder if they would nod at me in recognition: You are a good listener.

 

My paintings have been experienced as spaces to be. Take a breath, sink in, enter into a portal.

 

Where are they taking you?