A young woman with long, wavy, reddish-brown hair, wearing a blue floral dress, is painting outdoors on an easel. The painting depicts a rear view of a nude woman with her back turned, set against a bright blue background. There are painting supplies on a nearby table, and the scene is in a sunny, green garden with a brick house and trees in the background.

Orb & Water, Symbol & Surface

This collection explores the threshold between the visible body and the symbolic forces that shape it. Orbs, reflective gold grounds, and embryonic forms recur as anchors, sites where interior life gathers and begins to press outward.

Water functions as both medium and metaphor, erasing the boundaries of the figure and drawing it into states of transformation. Bodies appear suspended within currents of light, partially dissolving or reassembling, as if caught between emergence and surrender. Cracked surfaces, droplets, and floral constellations suggest rupture and renewal.

Together, these works explore the tension between what is displayed, what is reflected, what is magnified by the clarity of water, and what remains hidden beneath its currents.

Oil and gold leaf on panel, 36 × 24 in. A dark triangular base rises like an altar against a fractured field of gold, holding a single floral orb in delicate balance. The painted bouquet reads as a small reliquary of life, suspended at the point wher

Oil and gold leaf on panel, 36 × 24 in. A dark triangular base rises like an altar against a fractured field of gold, holding a single floral orb in delicate balance. The painted bouquet reads as a small reliquary of life, suspended at the point where structure meets radiance. Its reflection echoes below, suggesting a quiet doubling of worlds: the seen and the remembered, the material object and its more elusive, inner counterpart.

Oil and gold leaf on panel, 24 × 36 in. An egg rests in a dark pool of water, its shell cracking into fine, rootlike fissures that climb toward a hovering celestial sphere. The gold and copper leaf ground functions like a haloed backdrop, setting the

Oil and gold leaf on panel, 24 × 36 in. An egg rests in a dark pool of water, its shell cracking into fine, rootlike fissures that climb toward a hovering celestial sphere. The gold and copper leaf ground functions like a haloed backdrop, setting the fragile form against a field of radiant, almost liturgical light. The image turns a simple egg into a cosmological seed, holding together ideas of origin, vulnerability, and the slow emergence of a world.

Oil on panel, 36×24. A lone figure moves through water until the body becomes a vessel, holding and bending the surrounding light. Ribbons of current carve around the back and hips, blurring the line between flesh and reflection. The painting dwells

Oil on panel, 36×24. A lone figure moves through water until the body becomes a vessel, holding and bending the surrounding light. Ribbons of current carve around the back and hips, blurring the line between flesh and reflection. The painting dwells on that threshold state where self, surface, and depth seem to merge into a single luminous field.

Oil on panel, 24 × 24 inches. This painting depicts a female figure partially submerged, intertwined with the movement of water that both reveals and obscures the body. The composition emphasizes the relationship between figure and fluid surface, usi

Oil on panel, 24 × 24 inches. This painting depicts a female figure partially submerged, intertwined with the movement of water that both reveals and obscures the body. The composition emphasizes the relationship between figure and fluid surface, using light, reflection, and directional flow to dissolve the boundary between form and environment. Water functions simultaneously as subject, structure, and symbol, compressing motion into a suspended moment.