My artistic practice explores identity as an ongoing process of becoming—shaped by lived experience, relationships, responsibilities, and the continuous negotiation between personal and collective worlds.

Working primarily through abstract painting and mixed media, I approach artmaking as both an act of inquiry and a form of meditation. Color has long been central to my creative practice, offering a language for expressing what words cannot. Through the intuitive mixing, layering, and transformation of pigments and materials, I create what I think of as elixirs of color—compositions that hold the possibilities of joy, healing, hope, and renewal. Moving across the spectrum, I explore the emotional and expressive qualities of color, allowing each hue, gesture, and accumulated layer to contribute to an unfolding visual conversation.

My recent body of work, What the Surface Holds, marks an evolution in this practice. Atmospheric veils of color, saturated passages, dripping lines, and gestural interruptions create spaces where stillness and tension coexist. Layers obscure and reveal what came before, reflecting processes of accumulation, disruption, concealment, erosion, and repair. These surfaces become records of experience, holding both moments of contemplation and the complexities that exist beneath what is immediately visible.

Gold occupies a deeply personal and symbolic place within my artistic practice. Historically associated with value, power, and permanence, I am drawn to its capacity to signify something beyond material wealth: autonomy, feminine agency, and an inherent sense of worth that does not depend upon external recognition. My relationship with gold extends beyond painting into my personal visual identity, where it has long served as an expression of strength and self-definition. Within my paintings, gold becomes both material and metaphor—a luminous presence that resists erasure and illuminates what persists through change. Rather than concealing fractures or interruptions, its reflective surfaces draw attention to the places where experience has left its marks, transforming moments of rupture into spaces of possibility.

Circles and circular gestures recur throughout my work, evoking the cycles of nature, the rhythms of life, and the nonlinear processes of grief and healing. Their repetition suggests that transformation rarely follows a direct path; instead, we return to familiar experiences, emotions, and patterns, each time carrying the accumulation of what has come before. These forms hold a tension between continuity and change, between the comfort of familiarity and the possibility of breaking established patterns. What appears to be repetition may also represent movement, growth, and becoming.

Passages of white introduce light, openness, and visual release, suggesting moments of clarity and spiritual reflection. Against areas of saturation, fragmentation, and accumulated marks, white creates breathing room within the composition—not as an absence, but as an active presence that allows space for contemplation and possibility.

These paintings are informed by my ongoing Mothering-ArtAdemic inquiry, which examines the interconnected experiences of mothering, artmaking, academic life, and the often-invisible labor of care. Grounded in feminist perspectives and arts-based research, this inquiry considers how identity is shaped through chosen and imposed responsibilities, shifting expectations, and the complexities of navigating multiple roles. Painting becomes a space to question inherited narratives, negotiate boundaries, and reclaim the agency to define oneself beyond the expectations of others.

Rather than offering fixed narratives or resolutions, my work embraces ambiguity and the coexistence of seemingly opposing forces: vulnerability and strength, containment and resistance, loss and possibility. Through the accumulation of color, material, and gesture, I seek to create paintings that invite reflection while allowing beauty and complexity to occupy the same space.

Ultimately, my work asks what we carry, what we conceal, what seeps through, and how the traces of experience shape not only who we have been, but who we are continually becoming.