Color occupies a central role in my practice. I approach it both physically and emotionally, allowing tones to attract, resist, overwhelm, or comfort. Texture is never merely decorative; it functions as evidence of process and transformation. Each surface records gestures, revisions, and moments of discovery.
My background in fashion and textiles continues to shape the rhythm of my compositions. I think through ideas of folding, layering, tension, density, and exposure. Even in abstraction, the body remains present—not as a figure, but as a trace. Questions of protection and vulnerability, intimacy and performance, concealment and revelation recur throughout my work.
My paintings originate in textile memory.
Long before painting became my primary medium, I was fascinated by fabric—its colors, textures, cultural histories, methods of production, and the way it transforms when wrapped around the body like a painting. Fabric carries stories. It contains traces of place, labor, ritual, identity, and time. This fascination became the foundation of my creative practice and continues to inform the way I approach painting today.
Although my work is rooted in the language of textiles, I do not seek to represent fabric literally. Instead, its influence appears in the structure of the work itself. I build paintings through layers, tensions, concealments, and revelations, much like a garment is constructed. Pigment becomes material rather than image. Surfaces are accumulated, interrupted, erased, and rebuilt, allowing each painting to develop its own history.
Working between abstraction and suggestion, I am interested in emotional and psychological landscapes. Fragments emerge and dissolve, evoking traces of memory, bodies, architecture, and personal narratives. The canvas becomes a place of excavation where visible and invisible histories coexist.
For me, painting is not an act of representation but of uncovering. Through layered surfaces and material gestures, I explore the intersections of memory, femininity, displacement, labor, desire, and cultural inheritance. Rather than offering fixed narratives, my paintings invite viewers into spaces that are at once personal and collective, fragile and resilient, familiar and unknown.
I work with acrylics, oil, glitter and beads, among other materials.