I make paintings that speak through a shared language of personal and color relationships.They are dense fields of color and bodies that intertwine painting history, personal narrative, and abstraction.
In these recent works, we stand at a threshold: between inside and outside, land and water, abstraction and representation, self and other.We look between leaves, through doorways and out windows into gardens and landscapes that are both open and contained.Washes of paint and dry scribbles overlap, allowing for multiple versions of line and shoreline. The people in the paintings are likewise engaged in acts of tending.Within these everyday scenes, I highlight moments of care, be that for friend, plant, or partner.
Intimacy can look and feel like so many things–like rest, like touch, like watering, like watching. Sometimes it means observing from the other room, and sometimes reading over their shoulder.To paint is also to tend to. It’s a labor of attention that asks us to consider what’s before us and what’s beyond, and to share it with those around us.