Artist Statement                    

My paintings and drawings are direct and sentimental. I work from fashion imagery, cropped body parts, landscapes, and scenes pulled from everyday life. The compositions are tight and deliberate. Edges are clean. The surface is controlled. The images feel photographic, but the repetition and focus reveal an obsessive hand. I am drawn to fragments: a stretch of land or legs. Isolated from their original context, these subjects become confrontational. Fashion images lose their polish. Bodies become forms rather than identities. Ordinary spaces turn stark and exposed. I work in drawing, painting and printmaking because they allow precision. I build images through careful layering and decisive mark-making. I often return to the same image, pushing it toward clarity rather than embellishment. Nothing overly decorative, mostly what is necessary.

My work sits between documentation and fixation. It records what is seen, but it also insists on looking longer. Through cropping, and scale, familiar imagery becomes stark, bold, and slightly uneasy.