I am interested in the ordinary and the staged, the potential for theatricality within the banality of the everyday. Reflecting direct encounters with objects in my environment, I draw from still life, portraiture, and landscape, the pillars of perceptual painting. Drawing from the quotidian and familiar, I navigate the space between seeing and describing, interpretation and invention.
In recent work houseplants are surrogates for figures, plant portraits that entangle with vivid backdrops or sit unadorned on studio furniture. Sweet or ostentatious patterns serve as backdrops for these tableaus and recall bed sheets, wallpaper, or couch cushions, the stuff of home. I want these paintings to feel lush and verdant, offering tactility steeped in pure visual pleasure.
