Artwork Series

Avian Illuminations – our connection to wild birds

Inspired by the book Avian Illuminations by Boria Sax.

This series explores the intense, exhilarating, and always fleeting connection we experience when encountering wild, flighted birds.
Boria Sax describes how, in watching a bird, we may feel a profound moment of intimacy – and then, with a single wingbeat, the moment ends. The bird lifts away, leaving us grounded and momentarily excluded from its domain.

In charcoal, I try to capture this tension between closeness and distance, awe and loss. These large-scale works evoke the charged instant where a bird’s movement, posture, or gaze draws us in – before the moment inevitably dissolves into sky.

Gaze  - exploring the stories people carry within them

I am endlessly fascinated by people – the way a face and body can tell a story without a single word. In Gaze, each portrait seeks to capture a unique aspect of a person’s nature, not merely their physical likeness. Working at a very large scale intensifies these qualities: the viewer stands before a presence that feels larger than life, creating a charged space where the subject seems to look back with equal curiosity.
These works invite a moment of stillness, a meeting of gazes that suggests familiarity, mystery, and the complexity of being human.