Betelgeuse Painting

Light, beauty and the sublime interest me and informs my practice. My work explores the naturalistic beauty of the universe around us and how we perceive it with explicit and implicit emphasis on the power of the Sublime. In my recent work, I direct my gaze skyward, I use celestial events as inspiration for "spacescapes": the congealing of nebulae, the colliding of particles, and the birth of stars. Now, as I explore the abstracted frontiers of the solar system, I ask the viewer to see the universe as an abstract, ever-moving pattern that continues beyond the borders of the painting surface. I use large canvases to encapsulate this imagery more organically. The dramatic strokes of paint act as fluid approximations of cosmic particles moving through time and space—attracting, creating, and destroying — just as color moves across the canvas during my painting process.