Art Practice

My art practice explores the intersection of animals, architecture, and atmosphere through oil and mixed media painting. I am interested in how we live with the natural world, not apart from it, and how built environments shape our sense of belonging.

My story

I grew up around builders and makers. My grandfather studied architecture before becoming a photographer, and my father built homes by hand. From an early age, I understood that materials carry memory and that structure shapes how we feel.

I later studied architectural design and worked in wayfinding and large-scale environments, learning how people move through space and how design communicates. But alongside that structured world, I felt a pull toward something more intimate.

Painting became that space.

Working in oil, wood panel, and metal leaf allows me to build surfaces slowly and intentionally. Over time, I realized my paintings were not separate from architecture. They are an extension of it — still concerned with shelter, belonging, and environment, but expressed through animals, atmosphere, and human presence.

I love this practice because it holds both structure and intuition. It allows me to think spatially while working emotionally. Each painting becomes a reflection on how we inhabit the world together.

Driven by passion

Animals are central presences in my work. They are not decorative elements. They hold emotion, instinct, and awareness. Their gaze and proximity invite reflection on companionship, vulnerability, and coexistence.

Architecture enters my paintings as structure, shelter, and memory. With a background in architectural design and wayfinding, I approach composition with spatial awareness and material sensitivity. I think about rhythm, balance, and how forms hold space. Structures in my work suggest identity, movement, and the imprint of human life.

Across each body of work, I return to the same underlying question: how might we design our lives, our homes, and our cities in relationship with the living world around us?

Behind the Shine: My Creative Mediums

I work primarily in oil and mixed media on wood panel. My surfaces are layered through contour-driven linework, structured color fields, and gilded metal leaf in gold, silver, and copper. I often allow wood grain to remain visible, grounding each painting in material honesty.

My process reflects both intuition and structure. I build compositions deliberately, considering spatial tension and visual weight, while allowing atmosphere and emotion to emerge through color and surface.

Each painting becomes part of an ongoing inquiry into shared space, memory, and connection.