While many see rainy days as gloomy, I see rain as necessary for new life, pause, renewal, and as respite for mental health. I paint rainy abstracted nature impressions of land, sky, sea, and seasons to show new perspectives on finding tranquility and beauty in dark and stormy times. I see how sheets of pouring raindrops distort scenes beyond, blending colors and shapes together to drip down glass. Colors seem more saturated in rain, and the storms interrupt everything. 

In my practice, I create detailed pointillism landscapes on canvas, then I use gravity, stand-oil, and a brush to wipe them out, leaving a flawed and uniquely unpredictable outcome, that I then reshape into something embracing imperfect beauty and calm. I take on the changes that come from working intensely on editing and blending the remaining drips and paint smudges, returning to the canvas every hour or two, over the course of days, to react and adjust to how the paint has shifted. 

My art practice focuses on exploring the internal and external revelations and reactions that people have to rain, rain’s connections to indoors and outdoors, and how we find calm and beauty in the storms that are out of our control.