I am a visual artist working in abstraction rooted in observation. Using paint to explore the intimate and often inseparable bond between touch and emotion, collapse and recovery, my work examines sensual and perceptual relationships that reflect our longing for connection - to place, to the natural world, to each other, and to oneself.

Several years ago, walking through a city park in Oxford, England, I paused on the path beneath a beech tree whose branches formed a canopy overhead. I experienced an immediate bodily shift that left me acutely aware of a sense of oneness and coherence in that time and place, a sense of protection combined with strength. The tree's branches formed an enclosure that co-existed with full peripheral awareness. This moment prompted a sustained and enduring investigation into how spatial and atmospheric conditions affect feelings of connection or disconnection within an environment. Since then, I have been developing an abstract visual language probing the relationship between the inner life, often mysteriously elusive and difficult to articulate, and the physical realities of the natural world, particularly light and space. I believe that this interior project is valuable today as we search for what we believe to be soulful rather than merely reactive or rhetorical.