I am an oil and cold wax artist whose work explores memory, identity, loss, and the quiet ways we reconstruct ourselves through change. I build my paintings through layers, adding and removing paint, scraping into surfaces, obscuring imagery, and allowing fragments of earlier marks to remain visible. Increasingly, I have also incorporated found and altered papers into my work, using pieces of text, books, and familiar materials as physical traces of memory.
For me, rebirth has not meant becoming someone entirely new. It has been a gradual process of gathering what remains, deciding what still belongs, and allowing something different to emerge from it. Much of my earlier work was shaped by grief, particularly after the loss of Sophie, my soulmate. Painting became the place where I could carry that grief when words were not enough. At first, the work was about surviving the absence. Over time, it began to ask a different question: what do we become after something we love has changed us forever?
The three works I am submitting, *Lost in the Pages*, *The Wind Knew First*, and *The Woman Waiting Within*, feel connected to that shift. Their titles speak to memory, fragments, disappearance, and reconstruction. There is still loss in them, but there is also movement. They reflect the experience of gathering pieces of a former self and discovering that they do not have to be assembled exactly as they were before.
My process mirrors that idea. Every painting contains evidence of earlier decisions beneath its surface. Some marks are buried, some are scraped away, and some unexpectedly reappear. I have learned to value those remnants rather than erase them. They are often where the painting becomes most alive.
Rebirth, for me, is not a clean beginning. It is learning that what has been lost can remain part of us without keeping us frozen in the moment of losing it. It is the old story changing shape.
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