Each series is an inquiry into a different quality of energy — oceanic, vital, transient, primal, celestial.
The newest series — the crystalline space accessed from the heart. I breathe into the magical, eternal, weaving soul force through the body until the canvas holds that frequency. The womb as portal, soul becoming body. Not representation, but transmission.
Big Island called. Ahonui. She would not let me go, nor I, her. I acquiesced. The series follows the ocean's masculine and feminine energies — transparent shallows and dark depths, the calm space before the wave. Oceanic forces meet volcanic energy.
Inspired by the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku — "forest bathing" — in which one unplugs from technology and takes in the essence of the forest (or ocean) through the senses. Living canvases of green that illuminate a space with the energy of nature and the heart.
This series commenced in my new space at NELHA. At first I was fighting the wind. Then I gave in to Mama Gaia, Makani Nui, and her dramatic influence. Her spirit flows through me and together we create unapologetically. It is marvelously freeing…
A Japanese term for the wistful awareness of impermanence, the beauty of all that passes. These paintings hold fleeting moments of emotional energy and the spiritual crossing to the other side; born from a season spent close to the fragility of life.
Drawn from Japanese woodblock prints and the pyrrole-orange of an erupting volcano. This series harnesses that single pigment to frame darkness at its deepest — ringing the black holes, forcing limits and shape until the essence of the dark itself is changed. Passion and home.
The lighthearted evolution of Ecstasy: where the first series calls color up out of black, here color begins to win. I plug into the earth and into the heavens — old, dark energy spiritually recycled down into the ground while fresh, vibrant energy pours in from above.
Painted to Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, this earliest series calls vibrant color up out of black: old energy returning to the earth as fresh light enters from above. Light contains the dark within the negative space — chaos transformed into harmonic form.