2025-26

Artist Statement:
This series of paintings explores themes of human relationship to nature motivated by the histories of the invention of landscape.

Scale and surfaces of paintings are dynamic, blending together images from observational drawings, photographs, and borrowing from art history; each reference is purposefully interwoven into the structures of the painting to create new narratives and meaning, experimenting with compositional perspectives that obscure and disrupt a traditional outlook of landscape. I lean into both the lived experience and memory of being in nature through collage, which is a central device to play with tensions and contradictions of artificiality within human-made landscapes. 

Influences for painting are always first hand from my own journeys of walking through landscapes that are both familiar and distant.

At the core of my practice I’m looking to nature writing and ecological awareness in connection with art theory to question my own relationship to landscape and understand the significance of my autobiographical history in relation to my obsession with nature.