My work begins with a way of seeing—place, light, movement, felt sense. Whether painted or photographed, I’m drawn to figures and landscapes that hold memory and presence, the familiar and iconic scenes that reveal something deeper when you slow down enough to notice their quiet power. These are the moments I want to convey, where movement, light, and emotion meet and the ordinary opens into something intimate and expansive.

I’ve been making art my entire life, drawn first to figurative work. Landscapes became a new focus in recent years, and as I began exploring them more deeply in paint, I turned to photography to gather source images that held personal meaning. It quickly became its own practice. Photography opened a new immediacy—being present with the power of the human figure and the land, witnessing micro-movements in shifting time, light, and atmosphere, capturing the fleeting changes in form and color. Those moments of presence now inform both mediums, each one sharpening how I see and how I translate experience into emotional space.

Much of my inspiration comes from the coast and the places where elements meet. Salt carries the physical presence of the sea—its power, movement, and its ever-changing color, form, and light. Sky holds the expansiveness above it, the shifting atmosphere and emotional space that opens with it. Together, they form the horizon line that runs through my work: the meeting point between the physical and the felt, the moment and the memory.

Across painting and photography, I’m interested in how people and landscapes hold inner stories—how a place or a face can echo something quiet and familiar within us. My work invites viewers into that space of recognition, encouraging them to see the magnificence in the environments and the people we move through every day, and to feel the presence that lives between salt and sky.