YIELD is a dive into the messy, luminous heart of contemporary painting — a body of work that invites you into a charged emotional landscape where control and chaos wrestle openly on the canvas. These works emerged from a deep internal shift, exploring what happens when process is trusted over certainty, instinct over intellect, gesture over image. Tension moves through the paintings — between light and shadow, intention and disruption. Materials are allowed to lead, making space for accident, contradiction, and uncertainty. What emerges is a kind of emotional cartography: not of specific places or narratives, but of the internal weather systems we all move through. This work is not about answers or solutions. It asks for presence — for staying in the space of not knowing long enough for something true to surface.

*Because these are experiential paintings — large and textural, I would love for you to view them in the gallery. Selected works now available at:

Claremont Art Framers & Gallery

5/1 Leura Avenue, Claremont WA