Life can get very overwhelming. With an endless list of to-dos and places to be, many people forget to stop and breathe. This is how I breathe. Mixing paint colors is how I inhale. Putting the brush to paper is how I exhale. Breaking images down to their simplest forms of color and shape, I breathe life and movement into my work.

My works always start in an ugly phase. Nothing makes sense, no form is identifiable. They’re simply a flurry of color, shape, and value. Slowly, as the painting progresses, colors are cleaned up and forms are defined. This is how I work through any obstacle that I come across. It starts as an uncontrollable mess then, piece by piece, gets cleaned up until it’s a finished solution. For me, painting is an extension of this practice and I hope to illustrate this process behind every work.