I started creating art with the initial idea to change my own life. As the process unfolded, this became my life’s project through which I am exploring the power of engaged art to push boundaries and stimulate conversations about important environmental and societal issues.

I believe the stories that I want to tell as an engaged artist are best told through figurative painting. My focus is on creating large-size acrylic figurative paintings that are both aesthetically pleasing, as well as disturbing. They are created to convey a message to the audience that will challenge their perspective on the role each of us personally plays in protecting the planet. Touching one person’s heart and mind at a time, believing it will inspire them to think and speak about it to others, is what drives me to make this kind of engaged art pieces.