ARTIST STATEMENT

In my work, I examine the dynamic relationship between the humans and our environment. I paint the natural world and human figure as vessels of beauty, resilience, and memory. Guardians of histories both seen and felt. My work is an act of preservation, holding space for what is being slowly eroded, degraded or lost.

Situated at the meeting point of landscape and portraiture, my paintings explore the quiet dialogue between land and humanity. At times they appear together, with the landscape taking center stage and human beings depicted in diminutive scale to emphasize the vastness and magnificence of the natural realm. In others, they stand apart yet, remain deeply entwined.

I paint the human figure as I do the terrain-layered with history, shaped by light, emboldened by colour and marked by time. In the same way, my landscapes carry the subtle imprint of human presence, even in the absence of a visible form.

I am drawn to moments of stillness: Using vibrant, versatile acrylics and gestural brushwork, I trace how light and colour settles on skin and drapes across the hills or water. In both subjects, light and colour becomes a language of reverence, revealing fragility, resilience and beauty in equal measure.

Preservation, for me, is not loud or didactic; it is intimate. To honor beauty is to protect it. By inviting viewers to recognize the land as something familiar and the human figure as elemental, I seek to nurture a deeper sense of care for both. My paintings are meditations on belonging, memory and responsibility – to each other and to the world that sustains us. In celebrating the quiet beauty of the human figure and places, this body of work asks a simple question: How do we care for what we recognize as part of ourselves?