Oil & Wax Paintings
Oil and cold wax paintings built through layered marks, textured surfaces, and subtle shifts of color. Each piece develops gradually, with layers applied, scraped back, and reworked.
Surface Studies
These works begin with fragments—worn papers, traces of text, dyed textiles, and found remnants.
I embed these materials into layers of oil paint and cold wax, slowly building and revising the surface. Some elements remain visible, while others are partially obscured. The wax allows the work to feel both softened and weathered, as if it has endured.
What emerges is less constructed than discovered—a quiet conversation between memory, material, and the beauty of what remains.
Dawn
Remnants
There Is A Thread
Abstracted Landscapes
These paintings begin with the landscape, but not as a fixed view. They emerge from moments of attention—light across a horizon, a shift in color, the feeling of distance.
I often begin with poetry or lyrics, writing lines directly onto the surface in the earliest layers. These words become part of the foundation of the piece—sometimes visible, sometimes hidden.
Working in oil, the forms loosen and soften, letting the image move toward abstraction. What remains is not a specific location, but an impression—something remembered, sensed, or held just out of reach.
These works are less about depicting place and more about being present within it.
Child of the Clouds
Traces 1
Traces II
Praise Song I
Praise Song II
Praise Song III
Finding Grace
At the Intersection
Carmel Valley View
A Sea of Roses