I am captivated by the act of mark-making, a process that bridges my inner dialogue with the external world. My preferred mediums—encaustic painting and collage, silverpoint, pen and ink, and brush-applied ink—allow me to explore the layered nature of human experience. I often incorporate prints of my previous works into new encaustic compositions, blending fragments of my artistic past with wax-friendly mediums to create complex, textured layers. This cyclical process of reworking and integrating echoes the ever-shifting interplay between memory and the present moment.

At the heart of my practice lies a fascination with people and the relationships they form—both with one another and with the environments, natural or constructed, that surround them. I find inspiration in the poignant expressionism of European art between the World Wars, the raw emotion of abstract expressionism, and the precision of early Renaissance portraiture. Like those influences, my work seeks to capture the tension between the individual and the collective, the personal and the universal.