dicitur artifex

My practice is based around taking creative approaches in art making by using expressive marks and taking risks. I often work without reference materials, allowing myself to respond to improvisations that happen when I allow feeling to guide my paint strokes. I rarely begin a painting with any specific image in mind or idea of what I want the work to be. The ideas take shape as I add to the painting and spend time analyzing it, deconstructing the composition and evaluating which elements are working and which are not. I often purposely cover up parts of paintings I like in order to carve out a new path for what the painting could be. I try to leave areas from each painted layer showing through to the final surface as a documentation of the process of the work- like a trail of breadcrumbs for other art makers to follow to understand how the piece was visually constructed. Something raw, and honest. To me these works become a visual journey of the therapeutic introspection involved in making them. My hope is to have my art connect with the viewer to create a space for reflection- that experiencing the painting leads to experiencing a part of yourself.