I am a self-taught abstract expressionist painter working at the intersection of emotional excavation, material memory, and transformation. My work merges formal abstraction with psychological inquiry, using gestural movement, layered textures, and found objects to explore the complexities of identity, abandonment, family systems, and personal reinvention.
My paintings are visual palimpsests—each layer obscures and reveals what came before, mimicking the way memory and experience build upon one another. I layer paint, found objects, and beauty materials like blush, lipstick, false eyelashes, nail polish, and sewn threads to create textured surfaces that carry the residue of lived emotional experience. Like skin, my canvases are marked, healed, scarred, and beautified—each layer a negotiation between concealment and revelation.
Drawing from my background in the beauty and wellness industries, I approach painting as a somatic and spiritual process. Color is not only a visual choice, but an emotional temperature. Texture becomes a language for things unsaid. Each painting is a container for states of becoming—of breaking down and building up, of grieving and growing.
I am influenced by the lineage of female abstract expressionists such as Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner, and Helen Frankenthaler, but also by psychological systems, feminist thought, and generational storytelling. My first body of work, Abandonment Songs, navigates themes of loss and emotional resilience. My next series, Family Systems, will continue this inquiry—introducing archetypal figures like the inner vigilante, exploring how roles and defenses shape the family psyche.
Ultimately, my work seeks to offer a visual language for interior experience—where chaos meets clarity, and where beauty emerges not in spite of the mess, but through it.