Artist Statement

As a landscape painter, I use speculative imagination to envision uncertain futures, seeking moments of hope amid ecological turmoil. Painting, for me, functions like a geological process—built slowly through layers, accumulating over time. In this era of environmental crisis, I approach the canvas as a space of limitless potential and transformation.

My creative process reflects this sense of evolution. I inhabit an in-between state—much like memory, imagination, dreams, or hallucinations—where each mark and texture unfolds organically. As a process-based artist, I invite the materials—colour, sound, texture, and form—to shape the direction of each work. A synesthetic connection between sound and colour informs the construction of both the pictorial language and the formal structure of my compositions.

Each painting becomes a dialogue with nature, honoring its resilience and intelligence in the face of human impact. Like weeds that flourish in adversity, my work imagines nature’s enduring power to survive and regenerate. The expansive, horizontal format of my canvases mirrors the scale of ecological systems—stretching the field of vision and suggesting a boundless, non-hierarchical space where plants, creatures, landforms, and atmospheric forces coexist in dynamic relation. This compositional openness reflects the radical interconnectedness of all life.

Through this process, my relationship with the natural world continues to evolve. Paint becomes both a material language and a metaphor for transformation. The canvas becomes a site of renewal—a space where life and death coexist, where collapse gives way to possibility, and where new ecologies can begin to take shape.