Artist Statement

My figurative oil paintings explore the fragile threshold between psychological stillness and latent tension. I construct suspended emotional states through controlled surfaces, minimal shifts in gaze and gesture, and layered sfumato techniques.

Deeply influenced by icon painting, early Flemish, and Renaissance portraiture, my work compresses complex inner experience into quiet, ambiguous forms — where a single displaced detail can open the entire composition to feeling.

I came to painting from aerospace engineering, and I still think of a portrait as a structure held in quiet balance.