I’m an Austin-based painter working with abstraction, symbolic form, historical memory, and the stubborn mechanics of survival.
My current practice centers on acrylic paintings built through layering, revision, and strong formal contrast. I am interested in the point where color stops being decorative and begins to behave like pressure, weather, memory, or architecture.
The work often suggests bloom, threshold, orbit, shore, relic, scar, or procession without becoming a literal illustration. I want the image to remain open enough for discovery, but structured enough that the discovery is earned rather than accidental fog wearing a name tag.
The work
- Original acrylic paintings Works on canvas, panel, and other prepared surfaces, documented with dimensions, materials, finish, status, and inventory information when assigned.
- Current series Conjunction, Magnolia Canticle, and Threshold explore divided fields, symbolic bodies, Southern memory, passage, pressure, and release.
- Commissioned work Custom paintings developed around a collector’s space, preferred scale, palette, and connection to the existing studio language.
Background and approach
I hold a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Southern Mississippi. That training remains present in the way I think: images are not isolated ornaments but objects made inside time, shaped by memory, material conditions, inherited symbols, and the stories people tell about survival.
My earlier work included hand lettering and calligraphy, and that discipline still informs rhythm, spacing, and control. It is a tool in the background, not a label pasted onto every current painting. The present work is painting first.
Acquisition and inquiry
Available originals are listed in the portfolio. For a commission, include the desired dimensions, a photograph of the intended space when possible, a working budget, timeline, and examples of the existing work that speak most clearly to you.