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Artist Statement

My paintings explore a deeply personal vision of the landscape—one shaped as much by nature’s raw, physical forces as by the act of painting itself. Through bold color and energetic brushwork, I aim to reflect both the tactile quality of the land and the dynamic, corporeal process of applying paint.

 

Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, I approach painting as a physical and intuitive act. I embrace spontaneity, invite risk, and follow the belief that true discovery only emerges when constraints are willingly surrendered. Like nature, painting is a continuous, evolving chain—never static, always becoming.

 

At the heart of my practice is the material itself: paint as presence, paint as evidence of interaction. My work is a record of the artist’s engagement with the “stuff of this world”—an imprint of life and movement. I’m fascinated by how materiality can transcend itself, how form and meaning arise not only from what is visible, but from what is imagined. In this space between perception and possibility, painting becomes both experience and artifact.

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