The Story Behind the Art
When I paint, I’m not trying to recreate a place exactly as it is. I’m reaching for the feeling of it. Such as the way low hanging sunlight light settles over a meadow, the ache of something both fleeting and eternal. My landscapes are not portraits of a scene so much as translations of memory and emotion. They represent how the earth feels when you stand still long enough to listen. My florals are often full of movement and represent the wild expression of nature.
I paint from my home studio, often in the quiet hours after my son has gone to sleep. That stillness has become part of my process, a kind of meditation in color and movement. I think of painting as both an act of devotion and a conversation between myself and the land, but also between observation and imagination or between what was seen and what was felt.
The meadows, foliage, and wild places that appear in my work are shaped by time spent outside. I walk, notice and remember. I am inspired by the native plants that sustain the living world, and by the emotional landscapes that mirror them, their resilience or their delicate existence.
I suppose every painting is my way of honoring the connection I feel to the natural world They are quiet reminders that we belong to it, and it to us. My hope is that each piece carries a trace of that belonging, and that it invites you, too, to pause, to notice, and to remember the earth beneath your feet.
Wild Seasons Studio grew from this same impulse: to create space for reflection, reverence, and reconnection. Through painting, writing, and carefully designed offerings, I hope to encourage a slower, more intentional way of seeing the world. One that honors the rhythm of the seasons and the quiet beauty that lives in every wild, fleeting moment.