Artist Statement

These paintings are conceived as a visual poem inspired by my personal and familial histories, memories, and especially the experiences of grief and faith. The subject of the paintings is not only their representational imagery, but the materials and processes employed in their creation. Exposed paint strata, non-representational gestures, subtle perceptual distortions, and other interruptions in illusionism all draw attention to the process of seeing, making, and reaching for – and beyond – the thing depicted. In my paintings I explore how visible forms house invisible truths, informed by Catholic Sacramental theology.