This page showcases a curated selection of my personal works in paintings and collages. Through varied mediums and techniques, I explore themes of memory, environment, identity, and emotional resonance. Each piece reflects an intuitive process rooted in material experimentation, color, and composition. From bold, expressive paintings to layered, introspective collages, this collection represents my ongoing dialogue with both the tangible world and inner experience.
Celestial Garden Faces
Celestial Garden Faces, 2025
Medium: Acrylic paint, oil pastel, and colored pencil, with a matte finish on mixed media paper.
Dimensions: 18 x 24 inches
Dimensions: 18 x 24 inches
"Celestial Garden Faces" is a dreamlike composition that merges surreal portraiture with botanical fantasy. Against a swirling turquoise and moss-green backdrop, the piece features two ethereal faces constructed from floral elements, rosy, spiral cheeks, emerald green lips, and hypnotic, wide eyes that seem to gaze through the cosmos. Each face is framed by cascading floral forms reminiscent of foxgloves, drawing a parallel between the human and the natural world.
Scattered across the canvas, blooming flowers float freely alongside stylized stars, adding to the painting’s otherworldly charm. The background shifts like a nebula, evoking the mystery of a garden that exists somewhere between Earth and space. The repetition of certain motifs, like the mirrored floral faces, suggests duality, reflection, and a quiet connection between inner self and outer nature.
Through vibrant color and playful form, the piece invites viewers into a space where identity blossoms among the stars and flora, offering a sense of peace, curiosity, and cosmic beauty.
Playground in Orbit
Playground in Orbit, 2025
Medium: Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas.
Dimensions: 18 x 24 inches
Dimensions: 18 x 24 inches
"Playground in Orbit" is a bold, kinetic exploration of rhythm and abstraction. A vivid magenta background sets the stage for a dynamic interplay of shapes, brushstrokes, and color blocks that evoke the spontaneity of both jazz and childhood play. Crescent forms drift across the canvas, anchoring the piece in a loose sense of movement and gravity, while layered patches of blue, mint, butter yellow, and lavender pulse with texture and depth.
The composition buzzes with energy, where rounded marks, dashes, and loops suggest a language of their own. The brushwork is playful yet intentional, with varying transparencies and opacities adding visual tension. Despite its abstract nature, the painting has a rhythm that feels musical, as if each color and form contributes a beat to a larger, invisible score.
"Playground in Orbit" invites the viewer to interpret freely, a moment in motion, or a pure celebration of form and color unbound by logic. It’s a visual dance between chaos and structure, memory and imagination.
Blood Orange Bitters
Blood Orange Bitters, 2025
Medium: Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas.
Dimensions: 12 x 12 inches
Dimensions: 12 x 12 inches
Description:
“Blood Orange Bitters” captures the rich interplay between light and shadow through a vibrant arrangement of blood orange slices set against a deep, moody blue background. The bold, expressive brushstrokes and high-contrast colors evoke a sense of warmth and movement. Juicy crimson interiors glow with hints of pink, burgundy, and amber, while the surrounding shadows and curling peels suggest the fleeting moment of twilight, where fruit, light, and memory blend. The composition feels both grounded and abstract, inviting viewers to linger in its vivid palette and tactile surfaces.
“Blood Orange Bitters” captures the rich interplay between light and shadow through a vibrant arrangement of blood orange slices set against a deep, moody blue background. The bold, expressive brushstrokes and high-contrast colors evoke a sense of warmth and movement. Juicy crimson interiors glow with hints of pink, burgundy, and amber, while the surrounding shadows and curling peels suggest the fleeting moment of twilight, where fruit, light, and memory blend. The composition feels both grounded and abstract, inviting viewers to linger in its vivid palette and tactile surfaces.
Hold Me
Hold Me, 2025
Medium: Magazine clippings on paper.
Dimensions: 18 x 24 inches
"Hold Me" is a deeply introspective collage that blends elements of surreal domesticity with emotional longing. The composition unfolds across a fractured blueprint of interior and exterior spaces, featuring black-and-white tiles, chairs, cityscapes, water, and fragmented images of people and art, creating a disjointed yet intimate dream world. Shades of deep blue dominate the palette, evoking stillness and melancholy, while scattered textures and imagery suggest a tension between presence and absence.
Dimensions: 18 x 24 inches
"Hold Me" is a deeply introspective collage that blends elements of surreal domesticity with emotional longing. The composition unfolds across a fractured blueprint of interior and exterior spaces, featuring black-and-white tiles, chairs, cityscapes, water, and fragmented images of people and art, creating a disjointed yet intimate dream world. Shades of deep blue dominate the palette, evoking stillness and melancholy, while scattered textures and imagery suggest a tension between presence and absence.
Anchoring the piece is the bold text HOLD ME, partially obscured and variably colored, acting both as a plea and a declaration. This phrase turns the collage into a quiet cry for connection amid a backdrop of modern alienation. The layering of visuals of glossy magazine clippings adds a tactile vulnerability, inviting the viewer to piece together a narrative from comfort and stability, design, and emotion.
Reaching in Blue
Reaching in Blue, 2024
Medium: Acrylic on canvas.
Dimensions: 16 x 20 inches
"Reaching in Blue" is a haunting and immersive study of gesture, emotion, and collective yearning. Multiple hands, rendered in rich, layered shades of blue, stretch upward from a dark void, overlapping and dissolving into one another like spectral forms caught mid-motion. The absence of clear outlines enhances the sense of movement, creating a ghostly atmosphere where each hand seems both distinct and part of a greater, undulating whole.
Dimensions: 16 x 20 inches
"Reaching in Blue" is a haunting and immersive study of gesture, emotion, and collective yearning. Multiple hands, rendered in rich, layered shades of blue, stretch upward from a dark void, overlapping and dissolving into one another like spectral forms caught mid-motion. The absence of clear outlines enhances the sense of movement, creating a ghostly atmosphere where each hand seems both distinct and part of a greater, undulating whole.
The deep, cool palette evokes a sense of quiet urgency and emotional depth, encompassing grief, hope, desperation, and connection, all conveyed through the universal language of open palms. The upward movement of the composition suggests striving, seeking, or even escape, while the dark negative space between forms hints at the unknowable forces that surround and separate us.
Minimal yet expressive, the work taps into a deeply human experience of longing, whether spiritual, social, or personal, inviting viewers to reflect on what it means to reach out in a world that often feels just out of reach.
Southern Bloom
Southern Bloom: A Georgia Cyanotype, 2023
Medium: Cyanotype on Paper
Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches
"Southern Bloom" is an ethereal cyanotype that captures a delicate arrangement of Spanish moss and native Georgia flora, preserved through the historic photographic process of cyanotype. The composition features ghostly white silhouettes against a rich Prussian blue background, with the soft, thread-like strands of Spanish moss weaving above broader botanical forms like suspended breath or drifting memory. The overlapping textures evoke a sense of both stillness and movement, as if time has briefly paused to honor the natural complexity of the Southern landscape.
Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches
"Southern Bloom" is an ethereal cyanotype that captures a delicate arrangement of Spanish moss and native Georgia flora, preserved through the historic photographic process of cyanotype. The composition features ghostly white silhouettes against a rich Prussian blue background, with the soft, thread-like strands of Spanish moss weaving above broader botanical forms like suspended breath or drifting memory. The overlapping textures evoke a sense of both stillness and movement, as if time has briefly paused to honor the natural complexity of the Southern landscape.
The handmade brushstrokes around the border add to the tactile, organic quality of the piece, reinforcing the artist’s intimate connection to the material and region. Souther Bloom is both a study of plant life and a quiet meditation on biophilia, the innate human tendency to seek connection with nature.
