After more than twenty years of using art to process my inner world, the past five years have drawn me toward exploring the space between the spiritual and the subconscious. I now create through spontaneous painting, a process that has completely reshaped my relationship with art.
Unlike painting from life or from a careful plan, this approach is a kind of dance—between an intuitive, unseen force that guides the work, asking me at times to listen and surrender, and my own practiced mind, which instinctively knows what to do next. As I move between these two creative states, this process feels spiritual to me.
As meaning emerges through the painting, I often feel more like an observer than the painter. When the pieces finally reveal themselves, the realizations can feel like medicine. While each work holds personal meaning, the themes often expand into something more universal—touching on experiences many of us recognize, such as the tension between hope and hopelessness, or the quiet grief of watching a beloved version of a child slip away.
I have always been sensitive. For much of my life, this sensitivity has felt like a burden. Through this artistic process, however, I’ve come to experience another side of that same sensitivity—one that feels beautiful, expansive, and intuitive.
This process reminds me that creating is not just what I do; it is who I am.
