My images emerge from a desire to merge portraiture with still life and vegetation, creating a fertile phantasmagoria where identity dissolves into dream, and the self expands beyond the boundaries of the body.
Each painting draws from a wide range of influences: Northern Renaissance portraiture, the lush disorder of my backyard at the height of summer, the abundance of the farmers market, and the ornamental language of mid-twentieth-century pattern design.
The faces are imagined rather than specific portraits, suggesting open-ended narratives rather than fixed identities. To me, they embody innocence, trust, defiance, and vulnerability. Their playfully absurd hairstyles—or headscapes—function as metaphors for individuality and creative imagination: visible manifestations of an interior life made tangible.