I paint from the in-between—the place where opposites meet and transform. Light and dark, fear and hope, love and loss, each layer of paint is an act of holding what seems impossible to hold. My practice is rooted in the Mische Technique, an indirect painting method passed to me by my teacher, Philip Rubinov Jacobson, where the alchemical union of oil and water becomes both medium and metaphor. Through it, I seek to pierce the veil between the visible and the unseen, between the external world and the inner life that mirrors it.

My work is autobiographical at its core. Every painting begins as a lived moment: of motherhood, of resilience, of aging, of inhabiting a body that carries both strength and exhaustion. These experiences are distilled into images that hover between the real and the symbolic, where personal stories unfold as visual myths. I’m interested in how beauty can emerge from anguish, how grief and grace can coexist within the same gesture of paint. The act of painting becomes both confession and transcendence, a means to say what has no words.

Beauty, for me, is not an ornament but a form of truth-telling. It is the tension between fragility and endurance—the shimmer that reveals itself only through devotion to craft. I paint to understand the human condition through my own lived experience, to bridge the intimate and the universal.

Ultimately, my work is an offering. It's a quiet dialogue between paint and spirit, where technique becomes prayer and image becomes story. In the end, what I seek through my art is what my art seeks through me—to reveal the luminous thread that binds all our contradictions into something whole.