My abstract paintings are inspired by my personal experiences with water and the places that have shaped me. As a former competitive swimmer, movement, rhythm, breath, and endurance continue to shape how I approach painting, not as subject matter but as structure.

Rather than depicting specific locations, I work through layered surfaces, restraint, and repetition to translate physical and psychological experiences of water—distance, navigation, stillness, and return—into abstraction. Memories of coastal environments, including the shifting light and atmosphere of the ocean, inform the work without becoming illustrative.

My process balances intention with openness, allowing material, color, and mark to unfold over time. These paintings hold space for reflection and accumulation, where meaning is carried through sensation rather than narrative, and where place is felt as much as remembered.