Statement

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I am a figurative artist whose work focuses on the universal ways people reach beyond themselves in longing, gratitude, grief or hope.  Ultimately, my work is about the power of stillness, expressed through gesture, colour, texture and light.

My process invariably begins with my own emotions and reflections, which are primarily rooted in observation. There are times I might use AI generated prompts to simply explore ideas the same way an artist might flip through photographs or make quick sketches.  The most challenging part of my process is personal ~ reconciling my past and my present.  Having grown up with an atheist father, 'belief' was never part of my early language.  This current body of work reflects my own personal journey from rigid disbelief to a gradual acceptance of other possibilities.  Somehow, I stopped demanding proof of what couldn't be and started making room for what could.

These paintings and drawings are not about religion.  They are about resilience, vulnerability and the need to feel held by something larger than ourselves.

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