My work explores the emotional and structural life of the flower beyond its surface beauty. Through large-scale paintings in oil and acrylic, I use the floral form as a point of departure — a way of examining tension, movement, fragility, and transformation.

I am drawn to the moment where representation begins to dissolve: where petals become gesture, light becomes atmosphere, and the painting shifts between observation and abstraction. Scale plays an important role in this experience. I want the viewer to enter the work physically as well as emotionally as I do — not simply to look at the image, but to feel surrounded by it.

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Florals remain central to my practice, not as decoration, but as carriers of human experience. Within them I find resilience, vulnerability, sensuality, memory, and renewal. The figure occasionally emerges from this same language of form and gesture, shaped by many of the same emotional forces.

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My process balances control with instinct. Refined passages coexist with expressive brushwork, allowing the painting to retain both structure and immediacy. I am interested in creating work that feels luminous yet grounded — paintings that hold beauty and emotional weight in equal measure. I hope to allow space for the viewer to

feel as well as view with a unique response to what  I paint.

 

Born in Lisbon, Portugal, and based in Canada, my work has been shaped by a lifelong sensitivity to colour, light, atmosphere, and place.