Artist’s Statement

I paint in response to light and atmosphere, and to the small shifts that happen in the natural world. I’m drawn to moments that are easy to miss — changes in colour, temperature, or mood — rather than to fixed or clearly defined scenes.
My work moves between observation and intuition. I don’t aim to describe a place precisely, but to respond to it through colour, texture, and movement. The process involves a bit of letting go, looking closely, and allowing instinctive decisions to guide the painting as it develops, rather than working toward a fixed outcome from the beginning.
Nature is an ongoing point of reference for me, not as something to be represented literally, but as something experienced. Light filtering through space, shifts in atmosphere, or the quiet familiarity of certain environments often stay with me and find their way into the work through memory rather than direct depiction.
Painting, for me, is a way of pausing and paying attention. If the work offers the viewer a moment to pause or reflect, I hope it leaves space for their own experience to take shape.