My practice explores worlds between the everyday and the dreamlike, where wellbeing, pleasure, contemplation, reclining bodies, and spaces of refuge emerge. I create imagined, sometimes illogical scenes rooted in memories, experiences, conversations, and places I have inhabited or encountered. Through them, I seek to evoke another sensibility and affirm art’s capacity to envision a gentler life, where conflict does not have to occupy everything. Hope, optimism, empathy, and solidarity inform these worlds. My practice is rooted primarily in painting, while extending into drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and installation.
I want to take seriously what genuinely fascinates me, even when perceived as naïve, childish, tender, or irrelevant within contemporary art discourse. Shaped by patriarchy, these qualities have historically been associated with the feminine, the domestic, and the sentimental, and thus devalued in favor of what is considered serious, rational, productive, or intellectual. Recognizing this conditioning has helped me embrace these sensibilities with greater freedom and determination, as they are fundamental to how I see and inhabit the world.
These imagined refuges also stem from personal experience. Creating is itself a space of refuge, offering pause and freedom. Through it, I construct worlds in which I want to remain, extending that possibility outward and inviting others to pause and imagine. I find an affinity with Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s conception of imagination as the power to make the unreal real and the real unreal.
Painting is also a space of discovery. Intuition guides my process, while color, texture, surface, gesture, material, and accidents open unforeseen possibilities. As José Ramón Amondarain (2026) states: “Painting is an intelligent material, devoid of consciousness, yet capable of experiencing the world without self-reflection. Painting does not think like a subject, but it insists, remembers, and responds.”
Finally, I want my work to remain open to experience rather than decipherment, allowing others to pause, imagine, and form their own relationships with it.
