Through painting, I explore stories that can be replicated and understood on two-dimensional surfaces. While the same story is rarely repeated, similar motifs and ideas are often seen throughout my pieces. Inspired by concepts ranging from folklore to current events, my paintings’ deeper meanings play on femininity and womanhood. 

I create worlds trapped in moments in time that viewers can enter. I want to create a movement throughout each piece, where you move from larger portions into smaller portions, to create almost a landscape - but not quite a landscape - one found through shapes, colors, brush-strokes, and hints of nature-based landscape elements. The colors in each painting are inspired by whatever story I am trying to get across; how that fantasy makes me feel and the colors I associate with those feelings.  I try to create a little world, maybe cinematic, that is almost stuck in time, so you can see what is happening and what is about to happen. There is movement in this cinematic world, but it’s stuck. I often tease the line between realism and abstraction, asking questions of what traditional ideas from painting could be toyed with. 

Because of my intense research and training in architectural science, I am often also inspired by the physical forms of buildings and how they can be entered, viewed, and explored in multiple interior and exterior angles. Straight lines and shapes influenced by what I see on a day-to-day basis in the architecture world tend to bleed into my work unintentionally. In my paintings, the very distinct, heightened bars of color that cross over focal points are heavily inspired by walls and angular measurements in construction documents. While each piece stays open to interpretation, I leave clues to ways in and play with how titles can direct viewers to the deeper meanings and story-telling within the work.