There’s a certain calm that settles over the studio first thing in the morning. Before the brushes are lifted, before the palette comes alive, the space simply waits. Light slowly finds its way across the room, tracing familiar shapes—the jars of brushes, the easel, the half-finished work resting in quiet anticipation. I never really know […]

Most of my paintings begin long before I ever prepare a canvas. They come from encounters — a person who stays in my thoughts, a place that leaves a quiet mark, a moment that feels heavier or lighter than it should. I hold these things for a long time. They settle somewhere inside me before […]