Artist Statement

My work explores the invisible landscapes that shape human experience—memory, perception, identity, connection, and the complex relationship between the mind and body. Working primarily through Neo-Expressionist painting and abstraction, I use color, gesture, fragmented forms, and symbolic imagery to give physical presence to experiences that are often difficult to articulate.

My practice is deeply informed by my experience living with Multiple Sclerosis and the profound shift in perception that followed my diagnosis. Medical imagery, particularly MRI and radiological scans, became an unexpected visual language. What begins as clinical documentation of the body transforms in my paintings into something emotional and psychological: maps of consciousness, disrupted signals, fragmented memories, and landscapes of an interior world.

Yet my work extends beyond illness. I am interested in what it means to inhabit a human life—to grow, remember, desire, connect, withdraw, lose, and continually reconstruct a sense of self. Figures emerge and disappear within abstraction. Forms collide or remain separated. Flowers and plants become symbols of growth, memory, unrealized possibilities, and the lives we imagine for ourselves. At times, microscopic structures resemble galaxies, suggesting a connection between the intimate universe within the body and the vastness beyond it.

My process is intuitive and emotionally driven. I often begin without a predetermined image, allowing color, movement, and instinct to guide the composition. Layers accumulate, forms are obscured and rediscovered, and unexpected marks become part of the work rather than something to correct. I am drawn to this uncertainty because it mirrors life itself: unstable, unfinished, contradictory, and constantly changing.

Ultimately, I paint what cannot easily be seen. Whether examining the architecture of the brain, the distance between two people, an unfinished dream, or an internal emotional state, I am interested in the space between physical reality and lived experience. My paintings do not attempt to resolve that space. Instead, they invite viewers to enter it and recognize something of their own inner world within it.