I am a painter and sculptor working in abstraction. Keyholes, portals, ancient monuments, outer space, and underwater - mysterious places and things we can't ever know, are where my interest lies for exploring abstract painting and sculpture ideas.  I like to combine this reverence and acceptance of mystery with ideas around translation and adaptation, and the space for individual meaning that poetry and abstraction can open up in us. From one spoken language to another, from written to visual languages, and the space in between, where words and objects commune and shape-shift into new ideas. Themes of protection, personal power, love, and connection run throughout. I like to work in multiples to magnify the presence of each form. Repeated abstract shapes and textures found in nature and industrial settings make their way into the materiality of my work. Architectural strategies like scale and repetition are employed alongside painted textures that emulate protective coverings like skin, cement, metal, and bark.