My passion for drawing and my desire to learn to paint propelled me to study at Paier College of Art in Hamden, Conn. It was there that I learned watercolors, which became my favorite medium, though I also work with oils, acrylics, and pastels on occasion.

My love of nature and the ocean inspire my landscape paintings. My early work was highly detailed and realistic, often working from photo references. As time went on, however, I came to realize the beauty in simplicity and abstraction. Uncomplicated shapes with muted colors provide an elegance to nature that I feel is sometimes overlooked.

As a result, most of my paintings now are not of one specific place but instead are an organic representation of the combination of time and nature. The soft and somewhat uncontrollable qualities of wet-on-wet watercolor painting allows me to achieve this feel, which I hope will inspire viewers to consider the beautiful fragility in the natural world around them.