I am a painter.

I read the world around me primarily through my eyes. Colour, texture, light, moments. I notice relationships and subtle details, harmony, tension, connections. Everything I see quickly takes the form of a feeling within me.

Through painting, I have been learning for years to stay within a living process whose outcome I do not know in advance. I remain open to the present moment and allow it to inspire me. At the same time, I observe, discern, and then choose. I take a step, notice its effect, and let the new situation inform the next.

Painting is also where I develop my natural ability to discern what matters, to recognise, among many different impulses, what belongs together and what carries weight.

I bring this same capacity for discernment into my encounters with people when creating a commissioned painting. I listen, ask questions, and notice what is alive. Together, we discern what matters to them at that particular moment. In these encounters, I work with a Gestalt approach.

I am also interested in how a painting works in relation to the space and the person who lives within it. I do not see it in isolation, but as part of the relationships that together shape the character of a place and the way we experience it.