Artwork, Studio Practice, and Creative Inquiry

Conceptual and Process-Based Work

Time, Memory, and Place

This body of work explores time, memory, and place through drawing, painting, and image transfer. I construct layered surfaces that incorporate historical photographs, allowing fragments of the past to emerge, recede, and coexist within imagined landscapes. These works develop slowly through accumulation, erasure, and revision, reflecting my interest in how personal and collective histories are carried forward.

Historical images are not treated as documents, but as starting points—recontextualized to examine how memory shifts, fragments, and reforms over time. Each piece balances intention and discovery, honoring the past while remaining open to transformation.

Studio Practice

My studio practice emphasizes deliberate decision-making and material discipline. Working with drawing, painting, and image transfer, I manipulate historical imagery through layering, obscuring, and reworking surfaces so that meaning emerges gradually rather than through direct representation.

I am particularly interested in how landscapes—both natural and constructed—bear witness to human presence. Architecture, figures, and terrain function as visual anchors, placed and adjusted to suggest stories that are only partially revealed. Each piece evolves through slow, considered choices, where restraint is as important as mark-making.

This approach reflects a belief that meaning is built through attention, care, and sustained engagement. The studio remains a place of disciplined exploration—where materials guide the work forward and time remains an active presence.

Observational and Representational Work

Landscape and Portrait

Alongside my conceptual practice, I maintain a sustained studio practice in landscape and portrait work. These paintings and drawings are grounded in observation, material discipline, and compositional clarity, emphasizing seeing, restraint, and presence.

This work is less about narrative and more about attention—how light moves across a surface, how form occupies space, and how place and figure are experienced in real time. The discipline of observational practice informs all aspects of my creative thinking, grounding my broader inquiry-based work in craft, structure, and visual coherence.

Creative Leadership and Public Engagement

Beyond studio practice, I have supported the arts community through judging, visiting-artist roles, and the design of creative programs focused on access, inquiry, and sustained engagement. These experiences reflect a belief that creative work flourishes within strong communities and well-designed structures.

Creating is not separate from my leadership work—it is central to how I think, observe, and find meaning. The studio remains a space of inquiry, discipline, and renewal.