Threshold
24″x24″
Acrylic on Canvas
2026
DESCENT
24″x30″
Acrylic on Canvas
2026
HESITATION
24″x30″
Acrylic on Canvas
2026
HESITATION
24″x30″
Acrylic on Canvas
ARRIVAL
24″x24″
Acrylic on Canvas
2026
PLAY
20″x24″
Acrylic on Canvas
2026
PAUSE
20″x24″
Acrylic on Canvas
2026
WORK IN PROGRESS
Acrylic on Canvas
WORK IN PROGRESS
Acrylic on Canvas
WORK IN PROGRESS
Acrylic on Canvas
Current Collection: The Practice of Tenderness
The Practice of Tenderness is a series of paintings that examines tenderness as a conscious, resilient act rather than a passive emotional state. Using acrylic on canvas, the work explores how softness, wonder, and emotional openness can be actively reclaimed within adulthood.
A recurring figure—a girl in a red dress—appears within expansive, often ambiguous landscapes. She functions as a symbolic presence rather than a narrative character, representing an inner vitality that persists across shifting emotional and psychological terrain. Her scale within the environment emphasizes both vulnerability and endurance, positioning tenderness as something that exists despite uncertainty rather than in the absence of it.
The landscapes operate as interior spaces: sites of memory, pause, and transition. Rather than depicting healing as resolution, the series dwells in moments of becoming—where attention, curiosity, and stillness allow for change. The work is not concerned with erasing the past, but with altering one’s relationship to it, transforming inherited narratives into consciously chosen ones.
Throughout the series, tenderness is treated as a practice: deliberate, sustained, and brave. By foregrounding quiet moments and restrained gestures, the paintings invite viewers into a contemplative space where emotional weight softens and beauty reasserts itself as a source of strength. The work proposes that tenderness, when practiced intentionally, becomes a form of agency—one that allows possibility, warmth, and meaning to remain present even after life has hardened us.
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