I am a portrait artist working in oil paint with a hyper-realistic style. For me, the most sacred part of my practice is the process rather than the final result. My paintings take weeks to complete, allowing me to form a connection with my sitters and notice the unique features that make each person different.

I use strong colours, shadows, and props to help reveal each subject’s personality and create moments of performance or self-discovery. The time shared between me and the sitter becomes something both timeless and fleeting, like a memory.

I can’t decide how others should respond to my work, nor do I want to. Humans have an innate curiosity to look at one another, and I believe that curiosity drives portraiture. Meaning in my paintings isn’t prescribed, rather it emerges through the viewer’s own emotions, memories, and perspectives.