Through painting, I find myself in stillness, looking at something older, quieter, more rooted. I work with raw, natural materials, stone, clay, and charcoal, which I grind and mix by hand to create my own paint. These elements carry a sense of deep time, a kind of voice older than language, and they form the earthy, textured surfaces of my paintings.

You’ll often see simple diamond shapes and naïve compositions repeated in my work. These forms come from a place beyond thought. I don’t paint to represent anything. I paint to remember, to listen, to rediscover something already within us.

I often think of people like plants. We tend to focus on the flowers, using it to identify the plant, but it’s the roots, the quiet systems beneath the surface, that give life to it all. That’s where I try to paint from, that unseen world, the energies, and forces that shape who we are.