Statement
Artist Statement
For years I painted in search of a voice that felt true. What I found wasn't a style so much as a way of communicating — a language of reverence for the fragile, powerful relationship between humans and the natural world, a relationship that feels increasingly distant.
For several years, I have been working simultaneously on two separate but related series, both investigating how we mirror the organic world and how it mirrors us. Plant forms and human figures intertwine, suggesting that beneath our visible differences lies a shared essence — one rooted in resilience, adaptation, and the will to survive. Each work becomes a conversation between species, between fragility and strength, between decay and regeneration: a call to remember our place within the larger living network we belong to.
The first series, Beneath the Surface, consists of mixed-media botanicals, vintage in feeling — layered works in which female figures and root systems intertwine with plants and leaves, exploring the body as something that grows, reaches, and belongs to the earth. The work began as intimate studies of "vegetals," root vegetables with uncanny, almost human-like forms. What started in soil has grown into something wild and beautiful: portraits that live between plant and animal, grounded yet otherworldly.
The second series, Darlings, are vivid watercolors that take a sharper turn. These paintings explore the female form as a site of contradiction — simultaneously ornamental and dangerous, cultivated and resistant. Feminine monsters, of a sort. The figures are built from carnivorous and toxic botanicals: Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, sundews, poisonous herbs. Carnivorous plants operate through deception; they are beautiful by necessity, their color and scent evolved not for aesthetics but to draw something close enough to consume. The parallels felt worth exploring. The works don't offer resolution — the figures are neither victims nor predators in any clean sense. They are organisms adapting, developing the tools available within the conditions they were given.