My current body of work Internal Wilderness explores the relationship between solitude and our collective experience of it. I reveal intimate moments of the human condition by utilizing a variety of landscapes to serve as various reflections of our internal environment. The intense experiences within grief, shame, and loneliness lend a sharp departure from the present. These transitional states isolate us in a foreign world with only the company and guidance of our own minds. I create to explore (and normalize) the discomfort of that foreign world within myself.

I investigate the stories of humanity via brushstrokes on canvas – but not the ones which we share with anyone outside our own minds. My figurative paintings inspired by nature echo the emotions that we experience in solitude. By mixing one color at a time and layering them into human forms, creatures, and landscapes, I reveal moments of intimacy, reflection, tragedy, and grief – the human condition.