Graduating with a degree in Studio Art, I am in the beginning stages of my career and life that lay ahead. Thus, I find it important to investigate what it took to get me where I stand today. This requires me to reflect on the driving factors of my life, and who I have become. My work is a representation of my thoughts and way of thinking; it embodies my values and what I hold dear to my heart. Painting is a visual manifestation of my state of mind and explores its ever-changing landscape through my creative process. Mixing paint colors, I inhale. Putting the brush to canvas, I exhale. Through the utilization of layering and mark-making in varying opacities, colors, and shapes, I breathe life into my work. The process in itself is very therapeutic, and my recent artworks are individual self-explorations of my memory, personality, and character.

Each of my works are an individual reflection, relying on color, form, and value to create a compositional-landscape. Variations in brushstrokes, both in size and shape, creates movement within the piece to push a dynamic flow that keeps the eye moving. Acrylic glazes and a wide breadth of value within the piece serves to provide depth and movement throughout my work, emulating the complexity and fluidity of memory and thought. Color has greatly influenced my artistic development which is reflected in the use of saturated colors and limited palettes evoking a different mood within every piece.