Artist statement:

My art practice is rooted in a spiritual pursuit of ancestral knowledge. Through the language of abstraction, I depict multidimensional psychic landscapes allowing the subconscious to communicate through form. This is a means for me to portray the unseeable and explore notions of mysticism, ancestry, and (dis)connection.

Abstraction acts as a vessel for this exploration and is a tool for me to expand my intuition and sense of connection with all life. My oil paintings begin as unpremeditated compositions exploring the relationship between colour, space, and texture. Colour is the driving force behind my pieces, and through this language I am able to convey emotions, feelings, and non-physical spaces. Abstraction teaches me how to live and to not fear ambiguity, rather to embrace it, and know that ancestral wisdom is always available to us.

In an evermore digital world, we experience a marginalization of spirit and a disconnection from nature; art can act as an antidote to the ever-evolving feeling of despondency and alienation. I always return to the imperative: “Art must recover its spiritual function” which abstraction is conducive to—I look to transcendentalist Agnes Pelton, Leonora Carrington, and Wassily Kandinsky, who all sought higher states of consciousness to access and share spiritual knowledge. I believe the role of the artist is to revive the spiritual in art, and I take on this duty, yearning to keep tradition alive and create that bridge between my ancestry and the future.