My oil paintings operate as love letters to the earth, records of ephemeral landscapes, and warnings of human environmental impacts. Based on close observation of edgelands and urban landscapes at an intimate scale, my work depicts overlooked microhabitats, including bayou tributaries, roadsides, and vacant lots. I seek margins where plants volunteer, take hold, and grow large enough to move with the wind. These fragmented spaces are home to living systems, sustaining insects, birds, and unseen networks of exchange. Rooted in real Texas locations, my paintings attend to places where wildness persists despite pressure, improvising within constraint.
I am drawn to these interstitial spaces for their tension: beauty braided with precarity, resilience shadowed by loss. They are sites of disturbance, but also of adaptation, landscapes in flux that mirror a broader ecological uncertainty. To paint them is to witness both their vulnerability and their insistence on life.
I ground my work in sustained, place-based engagement. Moving through the city as both artist and naturalist, I allow plant life to guide my sense of what is significant from a more-than-human perspective. In doing so, I aim to unsettle the assumption that nature exists elsewhere. The boundary between the urban and the wild is permeable, if not entirely imagined.