Laguna College of Art + Design

I undertake the process of individuation with art making. I paint contemplative images that tell

stories of personal discoveries and of the transformation of the self by examining psychological

relationships between characters in my work, their environments, objects and their inner selves.

My thesis body of work is divided into two groups: large-scale narrative paintings with complex

multi-figurative compositions, and small-scale landscapes. These two categories explore similar

ideas but each is different in both method and approach. The landscape paintings possess

investigative quality and focus on the formal aspects of the work. They utilize structured and

controlled linear brushstrokes, such as hatching and cross-contour, to describe forms of the

landscapes. My larger paintings embrace the spontaneity of the impasto palette knife technique,

relying on the emotional effects created by the traces of dynamic physical gesture, to describe

the energy and movement of the figures.