WHAT IS IT SUPPOSED TO BE?

My work isn’t really meant to capture the world as we see it. My goals isn’t to capture a photographic rendition of a person, or to paint the sweeping sunset that consumes the sky. To me, I leave that to my phone camera. My work focuses on the unseen elements of our world. Energy, emotions, thoughts and feelings. When all these elements overlap, it creates an experience, which is what my art captures. Every brushstroke, every mark made on the canvas, it’s all an experience, frozen in time.

HOW DID YOU DEVELOP THIS STYLE?

My work has always been very energetic. Every time my pencil would touch paper and draw something, every single line was put there quickly and with confidence. It wasn’t until I was working on my major body of work for school, that I really started to notice this way I created. I was told that my mark-making was very authentic. It is very hard to replicate without these factors. From there, I continued to revisit this idea of mark-making. I decided to strip my art down to its most innocent and raw form, which was pure abstraction of mark-making, which is where I’m at now.

IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU NEED IN ORDER TO CREATE?

Music and time alone. Music is something I cannot live without. It is the most beautiful way to decorate time. The power music has to bring you back to specific moments within your life is beautiful, and I use that principle with my work. Time alone with my own thoughts is also essential. Sometimes I sit for days, waiting for the right time to make an artwork. I could sit in my studio all day just to produce an artwork that takes around 30 minutes. Thats all apart of the experience.