Focusing on the human form and working in realism, I create mythologically inspired portraits. My paintings are created using oils on homemade canvas and panel, placing my figures in natural settings that add to the natural color pallet and theme. 

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Through my work I strive to play with the beauty to be found in the unique and the different. My work explores individual identity through hybrid figures that work as metaphors for feeling ostracized in society through race, gender, or sexuality. As a queer artist, I use these hybrid creations to explore my personal experience of feeling different and judged, as well as my experience growing to embrace my differences.

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Nature plays a huge part in all my pieces, as I feel it strips away all the unimportant things. Recognizing our connection to the Earth, and the creatures that live on it, gives us the perspective that we are simply just beings experiencing our world for the first time. By focusing on nature and the human form, my paintings are a timeless realm that anyone could see themselves represented in. 

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I take from art, from nature, and from life to translate my internal experience and self image into beautiful and unique figures with a story hidden behind each one.