About the artist
I spent a long career studying why people choose what they choose. A psychology degree first, then years of brand strategy, which is really applied psychology with a deadline. Somewhere in the middle of all that I started writing poems, and eventually I started painting them.
I work in Los Angeles, in acrylic and mixed media, mostly in landscape. Mostly not the landscape in front of me. I am painting what happened to me while I was standing there, which is a different thing and usually a louder one.
The poems came first and they still do. Every collection starts as something I wrote before I picked up a brush. The painting is the second draft.
I show independently, I price my own work, and I sell it directly. If you are holding one of these, it came from my studio to your wall with nobody in between.
How the work is made
I start with a poem.
Every painting begins as a line I wrote before I ever picked up a brush. The poem holds the feeling. The painting holds what the feeling looked like once it landed in a place, a ridge, a shoreline, a road going somewhere I hadn't been yet.
I work in acrylic and mixed media, in landscape, but I'm not painting the view. I'm painting what happened to me in front of it. The color is emotional before it's accurate. The sky is pink because that's how it felt, not because that's how it was. Abstraction is what lets me tell the truth about a moment instead of just describing it.
So the work moves in one direction: a poem, a feeling, a place, a canvas. Visual storytelling, one stanza at a time.
A poem, a feeling, a place, a canvas. That is the whole method.
