Exploration as Process
Photo features the artist gathering video footage to be used in her paintings
Kilsby Sinkhole—NSW, Australia
My landscape paintings explore the boundaries of the natural world, the human body, and psychological depth, drawing from my personal experiences of freediving into underwater caverns on a single breath of air. Through my immersive oil paintings, I create a dialogue between desire, dread, and mortality, inviting viewers to confront these forces. There is no safe distance or comfortable vantage point in my work—I pull viewers to the edge of the unknown, urging them to engage with discomfort and vulnerability as the surface recedes.
Through gestural brushwork, transparent layers, fluid strokes, and sweeping sfumato, I blur the line between abstraction and representation. My technique evokes pareidolia —the tendency to see shapes or objects in ambiguous forms—transforming indecipherable spaces into scenes shaped by the mind's interpretations. I invite viewers not only to engage with the painting before them but to conjure their own darkness.