The Invitation

Each work begins with a gesture—a spark of curiosity, a willingness to see what form emotion might take. Commissioned pieces follow the same rhythm of discovery: a dialogue between your vision and the materials that give it voice. Whether inspired by a place, a memory, or a feeling that resists words, the process remains intimate and organic. Colors emerge through conversation; textures evolve through instinct. No two surfaces ever resolve in quite the same way. Each painting becomes a record of shared intention—shaped by patience, trust, and time.

To begin a commission is to begin a collaboration. The painting will grow between us—your inspiration and my process meeting somewhere in the middle, where accident becomes meaning and material finds its pulse. Together we create something singular: a work that carries its own history, and yours.

The Ideal Collaboration

My ideal commission is for a piece that already knows its destination—a completed space, a living environment ready to be in dialogue with the work. That allows me to consider light, scale, and atmosphere from conception. The ideal collaborator comes with a spark—a vision, an emotion, or even a single word—and is open to the slow alchemy of transformation that follows.

I love working large, on deep 4-inch stretcher bars that project from the wall like architecture. Each linen surface is hand-stretched and primed in the studio, sometimes incorporating materials of personal significance to the client—fragments of texture, pigment, or place that ground the piece in shared meaning. The goal is always the same: to build a world from the inside out, one that feels inevitable once it exists.

The Vision

Some works, like Expanse, I imagine living in public—museums, atriums, places where scale can breathe and the world can pass through them. Others feel more intimate, at home in quiet rooms or private collections, shifting with the light and the rhythm of a single day. What matters most is that the work is lived with—seen from across a room, caught in passing, rediscovered in silence.