Studio Journal
The Studio Journal documents the evolution of my work as an artist.
Sometimes a painting begins with a simple observation: a flower blooming in winter, fallen fruit glowing against dark grass, fog rolling across the land. These entries follow the ideas that grow from those moments and the paintings that emerge from them.
Drawing From the Well | How Old Ideas Became New Again
I used to think every series I created was separate. Art is Life is Art. Confessionalism. Abstract Cities. Word Portraits. Lately I've started to realize they were never separate at all. They were all different ways of asking the same questions.
When Paint Wasn't Enough | The Origins of My Word Portraits
People often ask where my word portraits came from. I wish there were one answer. There isn't. They grew out of years of experiments until one watercolor portrait showed me that paint could capture a face, but words could capture a history.
Creating Order from Chaos | The First Question That Led to My Word Portraits
Sometimes the most important discoveries don’t happen because inspiration strikes. They happen because you keep working long enough to ask a better question. This is the story of the sketchbook page that changed everything.
Back in Motion
Two weeks of twelve-hour days on a rice farm left me feeling strangely disconnected from my life and my art. What started as a temporary job became an unexpected lesson in attention, momentum, and learning to stop forcing things.