I’m a visual artist based in Houston, TX.

I once created realistic portraits in colored pencil and expressive, colorful portraits in acrylic. After a long hiatus, I returned to art with new intentions. My work has since transformed to primarily creating gestural, textured paintings with acrylic and thread, but I also enjoy photography, ceramics, and collage. My practice references both of my grandmothers — one who paints, and one who sews — with introspection and abstraction in the process. Their joy in creating their own work and getting to explore color provided me with a spark to keep going when I struggled to have pride in my own.

When working with paint, its diverse dilutions, transparencies, viscosities and often unruly movement, I explore the push-pull of control and letting go. Learning to focus on the process, while honoring the product, has been a healing journey for me to work through intense self-doubt and learn to trust my intuition.

Outside of my creative practice, I’m a sign language interpreter. My wife and daughter mean the world to me, as do our pets: dogs, chickens, and a cat. They all get along and look out for each other, and it makes my heart happy.