Classic nude, now fiercely alive.

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

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

Working primarily on large scale oil canvases, I am concerned with pushing traditional oil painting with mixed media layering (oil, wax crayon, charcoal, pencil, pastel). The canvas is not a sacred ground - I use old oil cloths, sand paper, sharp edges to rub, sand down, blend mediums to create rich & layered oil paintings.

A painting holds my interest if it can contain multiple opposites: abstraction and figuration, sensuality and aggression, looseness and control, dirt and clarity. I work across these axes to create a balanced intensity where painting and drawing coexist.

Drawing from the tradition of the female nude, I work through neoclassical poses: reclining, arms raised. My compositions are intentionally fluid, and left without full resolution. Color functions as an entry point into the work, where the female body is both subject, object and muse.