I want to bring back the classic nude as a site of vitality, assertion and seduction.

Painting is a bodily experience, and I want the energy and duration of the process to remain visible: to feel fiercely lived in.

Working primarily on large scale oil canvases, I work across traditional oil painting layering varied dry media through mark making and erasure — wax crayon, charcoal, colored pencil and pastel. Abstraction, aggression, looseness guide my practice — as a way of confronting both the material and the subject.

Drawing from the tradition of the female nude and neoclassical poses — reclining, arms raised — I reject their quiet demeanor. I want their inner state visible, turbulent, unleashed.

Color functions as an entry point into the work, where the body is both subject, object and muse.