PORTFOLIO: ABSTRACT
‘TRACES OF PLACES’ is a series of oil paintings that focuses on the exploration of emotion and memory, through both texture, and color. These large-scale works are each built through layers of paint, creating distinct surfaces that shift with light and perspective. The colors featured in each piece are analogous of ongoing feelings, outlooks, and reflections I wish to project onto the canvas. Further these deep hues were inspired by my fascination with the atmosphere, certain landscapes, and impactful sunsets — the way color moves across clouds and defines itself in the clouds has always been something that captured me. Through texture and tone, this series captures the quiet intensity of those fleeting transitions,
ENTANGLED
AVAILABLE
Size:
30”x24”
Year:
2026
This 24”x30” original oil painting leans further into exploring textures and materials. The scene still takes inspiration from nature, weather patterns, but it brings in a new “metallic medium”. Layers of oil paint are pushed, pulled, and swirled with a palette knife and brush.
AUGUST GROOVE
AVAILABLE
Size:
48”x48”
Year:
2026
This 24”x30” original oil painting leans further into exploring textures and materials. The scene still takes inspiration from nature, weather patterns, but it brings in a new “metallic medium”. Layers of oil paint are pushed, pulled, and swirled with a palette knife and brush.
LIMERENCE
AVAILABLE
Size:
24”x30”
Year:
2026
This 24”x30” original oil painting leans further into exploring textures and materials. The scene still takes inspiration from nature, weather patterns, but it brings in a new “metallic medium”. Layers of oil paint are pushed, pulled, and swirled with a palette knife and brush.
PIPE DREAM
AVAILABLE
Year:
2026
FRAMED
Size:
30”x30”
This 30”x30” Original Oil painting leans fully into the satisfaction of repetition. Layers of oil paint are pushed, pulled, and swirled until the surface becomes its own small event—part meditative, part excessive.
WET SUNRISE
AVAILABLE
FRAMED
Size:
30”x30”
Year
2023
As yet another continuation piece of the series starting with "Head in the Cloud" - This oil painting is an expressive exploration of texture and color, created using a palette knife and pure oil pigments. The thick, impasto application of paint brings a dynamic, tactile quality to the surface, inviting viewers to engage with the piece not only visually but almost physically. The colors interact in vibrant, harmonious ways, creating a sense of movement and fluidity that shifts with the viewer’s perspective. This work captures the raw beauty of the material itself, where the act of creation is as much a part of the painting’s story as the visual experience.
SEABREEZE SONATA
SOLD
Size:
60”x60”
Year:
2022
Featuring my favorite color palette of 2022, Seabreeze Sonata became a big, messy, wonderful experiment in movement. I created the entire piece using only a palette knife, which pushed me to work more instinctively than I usually do. The paint sits thick on the canvas, dragged and layered in a way that lets the colors blend, scrape, and break apart. Nothing is overly planned—each pass of the knife follows the energy of the moment, building an abstract rhythm that reminded me of shifting tides and gusts of wind. It’s a large piece, and part of the experience is getting up close to see all the ridges, scratches, and unexpected mixes of color that happened along the way.
TEARING THE SKIES
SOLD TOGETHER
Size:
(QTY 2) 48”X48”
Year
2021
Tearing the Skies is a continuation is a series/collection of abstract color explorations. This exploration intends to explore the depth of individual colors as they presents themselves with texture and impasto; and further, how these textures within each color can add motion, feeling, and interaction with surroundings.
HAWAIIAN SKIES
SOLD
Size:
48”x48”
Year
2023
Hawaiian Sky, among with other similar pieces in this portfolio are abstracted, impressionist paintings created and sculpted to their shape with a palette knife. This composition was creating using all of the colors seen in a sunset viewed from the same balcony where this painting is pictured. Connecting to and paying respect and attention to these beautiful moments and forces of nature is something I desperately want to continue moving forward in my practice.
HEAD IN THE CLOUDS
SOLD
Size:
60”X60”
Year
2021
This bold, abstract oil painting bursts with vibrant hues, where thick layers of paint are carved and sculpted with a palette knife. Somehow ‘Head in the Clouds’ makes itself strong, while maintaining a softness. The bold strokes of soft, pastelly pinks and blues clash with the zesty yellows. Dynamic collisions, and textured strokes seem to leap off the canvas towards the viewer. Deep grooves and raised ridges create a tactile, almost sculptural effect, contrasting with the glossy, smooth surfaces of untouched pigment. The colors swirl and blend in passionate, fluid motions, shifting from popping bright tones to cool, calming blues. The intense texture and vivid palette bring the painting to life, inviting the viewer to both see and feel the energy within the canvas.
