About Me!
I aim to capture personal stories through my intricate, photorealistic paintings. I’m often drawn to fantastical and dream-like settings because art, to me, is an escape and a hope for a better world.
Much of my work examines my inner life through themes of validation, perfectionism, forgiveness, beauty, and pain. The paintings are often confessional and vulnerable. I seek to capture the attachments and fractures of human relationships, inspired by the psychological history of my own upbringing.
I’m drawn to long proportions, for this elongated shape lends itself to storytelling. In a way, each piece I produce is a self-portrait, exploring the joys and pains of my lived experience and the progressions of my relationships, such as those with mother, father, self, friends, and lovers. My ultimate goal is to create cathartic work through which I may offer solace to those who identify with the emotional turmoil and naive hope that I depict on a canvas.
