In my paintings, I invite viewers to engage with layered narratives which distill the absurdity of contemporary life, environmental degradation and the irrational solutions to these concerns. Nature, in its vast scale and intricate beauty, serves as a central inspiration—both as a source of awe and wonderment and as a subject of human hubris. Through the lens of personal observation and experience, I create new worlds which serve to illustrate our misalignment with nature, while maintaining threads of humor, beauty and hope. These environments are created through the process of blending intuitive mark making with figurative imagery, employing a warm, classical color palette and contrasting contemporary subject matter to form a critique of the way we solve problems.