Connect What is your favorite type of art to create?

I primarily create large scale oil paintings built through layered, repetitive mark making. I’m drawn to the physicality and fluidity of the medium, and the way the surface is able to accumulate over time. Alongside painting, I experiment with collage and new processes, including foundry work, and I'm increasingly interested in collaborative approaches to open art making to shared experience.

Where do you find inspiration?

I draw inspiration from liminal, sedimented landscapes like caves, bogs, and surfaces where time builds in layers. Personal experience shapes my process and mark making, especially around endurance and survival. Small animals like rabbits come up often as symbols of vulnerability and alertness, shaped in part by the poetry and literature I read. At its core, the work comes from a reverence for humanity and the shared impulse to make.

What would you do with $25,000?

I would use the funds to deepen my process; expanding scale, materials, and time for sustainable making. It would allow me to access studio space, experiment more freely, and commit real time to my work, despite the rising cost of living. It could make a full-time practice possible, changing the conditions of my life and allowing me to support others in my community in making, too.