My work explores abstraction through atmosphere, movement, texture, and scale. I paint large because I want the work to feel physical, something you stand in front of, get pulled into, and experience with your body as much as your eyes. The paintings are less concerned with representation and more interested in emotion, tension, rhythm, and release.

Before painting, I spent years immersed in music culture as an internationally published photographer, documenting musicians, live performance, backstage moments, and the energy that exists between people, place, and sound. That world shaped the way I see everything. The movement, intimacy, tension, connection, and emotional weight of those experiences continue to inform the work today. What I once captured through a lens, I now build through paint.

My process is instinctive and layered, guided more by feeling than control. Most works begin without a fixed outcome, evolving through repetition, abrasion, atmosphere, and response. I am interested in the emotional weight that texture, scale, and accumulated gestures can carry. The paintings often evolve like music itself, building tension, breaking apart, finding rhythm, and eventually settling into something unexpected.

I do not approach abstraction as something decorative or distant. I see it as a visceral language, a way to translate human energy, lived experience, and atmosphere into something immersive, immediate, and alive.