"We Are All Islands II" Painting

Contemporary painter working between figurative abstraction and material surfaces. Exploring human presence, transformation, and perception through layered painting processes. I work in oil and mixed media, combining abstract and figurative approaches to explore memory, identity, and emotional transformation. My work incorporates copper as a material surface, introducing reflection, depth, and physical presence into the painted image. Through ongoing series, I build visual worlds where human presence emerges, dissolves, and reappears within shifting emotional and perceptual states. The figure is never fixed, but functions as a carrier of psychological experience, suspended between visibility and disappearance.