Artist Statement

Artist Statement

A technicolor version of the natural world, my artwork is vibrant, fantastical, detailed, graphic, and full of patterns. These are not your grandma’s landscapes, striving for realism and full of soft muted colors and naturalistic textures. My tableaus are nature on acid. Populated with trees, skies, mountains, and oceans that are looking out not just being looked at, breathing, alive, energetic and psychedelic.  People smile when they look at my art. It reminds them of one of their best days, a kaleidoscope of joy. Getting lost in the minutiae of focusing on small details as I paint, I lose all time, thought, and sense of myself in the process. As an anxious person stuck in my head all of the time, this is a wonderful and miraculous escape. That escape hatch can be accessed by the viewer too, a way out of the ordinary world into the imaginative liminal space. I tend to see the world through a dark lens, weighed down by depression and anxiety, and through my art, I can transform that world into a brighter, sparklier, more electrified space to inhabit. The space of my paintings is entirely within my control, it’s empowering in all the ways the actual real world space is not. Adulthood seems to replace the vast spectrum of color with varieties of beige; houses, cars, clothes, accessories. I’ve never understood why. Everything created for kids is rainbow colored eye candy. The art I create is a world where beige is outlawed, play is encouraged, and nothing is as it seems.