Painting

I picked up painting in my late thirties as part of an art class with Anika Ahmed in 2024. At first, I approached painting as a challenge to grow my skills and emotional expression, choosing subjects I found intimidating so I could explore fear within the artistic process. In that spirit, in 2025, I began a series of paintings called Fear/Love that focused on personal portraiture, conflicting emotions, and lightness/darkness within art.

Lightness/darkness continues to be a recurring theme in my paintings, but I've branched out into more peaceful scenes that capture a child's world in general. I'm drawn to simplicity and dreamlike atmospheres, and I like working with palette knives alongside brushes. Although my daughter's life is my favorite subject, I can't resist a good commission or fun challenge. For example, I've participated in an exhibition of skull paintings for a tzompantli (wall of skulls) in Mexico City. I'm notorious for being either incredibly serious or incredibly playful while painting, and my work reflects that.