San Diego Kelp Study

My work explores how mark making can emphasize emotion and meaning in a work of art through line quality, gesture, and color as well as playing with focal points. The lack of visual context relating to a specific time or place within my work abstracts the drawing visually and conceptually without physically abstracting the subject itself, creating a juxtaposition between realism and abstraction. I enjoy depicting natural objects due to the various textures, forms, materials, and colors present within them, but also because I feel a much deeper, emotional connection to the seemingly more mundane things around me. I try to elevate these objects by delicately rendering them so that the viewer can begin to create their own connections.