My practice began in portraiture, primarily working with children, where attention to presence, subtle emotional shifts, and silence was essential. Over time, technical familiarity became less challenging — depicting a subject was no longer the question. Painting honestly was.
This realization marked a gradual shift toward abstract landscape. Rather than describing external places, the work began to move inward. I work with layered paint and textured surfaces, allowing traces of revision, hesitation, and erosion to remain visible.
What I carried with me from portraiture is sensitivity — to weight, atmosphere, and restraint. What changed was the subject. Landscape became a way to articulate inner states, where form emerges slowly and meaning is allowed to remain open.