Artist Statement:

My practice explores spaces drawn from my immediate environments, through the lens of my own life experiences. My works consist of flat, clean paintings of interior and exterior spaces. I source my reference material through spontaneous photography, on daily outings, in moments of stillness. These images are often of banal, mundane or transitional places that elicit feelings of familiarity as well as an eerie nothingness. This hunting, nothingless, is amplified when these spaces are translated into jarringly static forms, making these feelings even more potent. A mix of the ordinary and the surreal is bound together with tight compositions to create a perfect strangeness in each piece. The resulting paintings depict the inescapable feelings of loneliness that are triggered by the emptiness of my surroundings. However, my works also aim to capture the elegance of these moments and a harmony of melancholy and contentment. In this way, my works explore the simultaneous beauty and existential dread that accompanies everyday life.