ARTIST STATEMENT

My paintings explore how movement, memory, and changing conditions accumulate on a surface. I build them through pouring, staining, dragging, scraping, veiling, drawing, and repeated revision, allowing earlier decisions to remain visible beneath later ones. I have long been interested in the way paint can behave like weather - spreading, pooling, eroding, colliding, and shifting under its own momentum. In the recent work, sweeping gestures and interrupted marks move through these accumulated layers, creating a tension between immediacy and something slower and more excavated.

Weather, currents, erosion, shifting light, and other natural systems remain points of departure, but I am less interested in depicting landscape than in the unstable conditions they suggest. The paintings develop through changing material, physical, remembered, and psychological states. Forms surface and recede; a mark may briefly suggest a body, a branch, a map, or a fragment of terrain before returning to abstraction. I want the paintings to hold that uncertainty - to feel physical and improvised while carrying the memory of everything that has happened on the surface.