Metamorphic Journey Collection 
Conception is a visual meditation on origin — the moment when something begins, unseen yet undeniably present. The composition pulses with layered textures and directional flow, echoing the convergence of elements that give rise to life, ideas, or transformation. Colors may overlap and stretch outward like cells dividing or light piercing through darkness, conveying an intimate, universal rhythm of becoming.

Conception

Metamorphic Journey Collection 
The painting reflects the universal impulse to rise beyond limitation — to find harmony, clarity, and expansion through movement toward higher ground. Each layer of color embodies not only beauty but also the momentum of change, echoing the truth that ascension is not instantaneous, but a journey through stages of transformation.

Ascension in Color

Metamorphic Journey Collection 
This piece reflects the sacred experience of true recognition — not just being noticed, but being seen: for who we are, what we carry, and what we try to conceal. It asks the viewer to slow down and meet that gaze with honesty and stillness. I See You becomes a mirror for the moment when attention becomes empathy, and looking becomes knowing.

I See You

Bridges to Castles is a metaphor-laden composition that evokes the feeling of forward movement toward something greater — something long imagined, yet not yet fully formed. The painting invites the viewer to contemplate the emotional and spiritual architecture that carries us from one phase of life to the next. Bridges represent the transitional spaces — moments of risk, vulnerability, and trust. Castles stand for ambition, fulfillment, safety, or personal victory. 
 
Rendered in layered textures and directional flows, the canvas may suggest topographies or imaginative landscapes — not literal maps, but emotional ones. There’s a sense of motion and aspiration in the marks, as if the viewer is being guided, gently but surely, toward an elevated destination. 
 
Ultimately, Bridges to Castles is an ode to bold dreaming, inner resolve, and the bridges we build — not to escape the present, but to meet the future we quietly believe we deserve.

Bridges to Castles

Ring of Fire radiates with fierce energy and motion, drawing the viewer into a visual vortex where emotion and intensity spiral without end. The circular form — whether literal or abstract — anchors the piece in symbolism: the unbroken loop of life, the forge of trials, the heat of passion, and the cycles we are shaped by and return to. 
 
With a palette dominated by reds, oranges, deep blacks, and perhaps flashes of gold or embered white, the painting pulses with dynamic tension. There is movement in every brushstroke, but not chaos — it’s a controlled burn, the kind that transforms rather than destroys. 
 
This is not merely fire for fire’s sake. Ring of Fire is about resilience through heat, clarity found in intensity, and the paradox that what threatens to consume us can also refine us. It's about the sacred burn of becoming.

Ring of Fire

Metamorphic Journey Collection 
In Show Your Stuff, the canvas radiates with confident motion and unapologetic color. Bold vivid tones twist and flare across the surface, creating a dynamic composition that feels both spontaneous and deliberate. There’s a sense of declaration in the gesture — as if the painting itself is stepping into the spotlight, fully formed and proud to take up space.

Show Your Stuff

Whispers of the Spirit Collection 
This painting celebrates connection in its most surprising forms — the idea that friendship, support, and shared stillness can be found even where we least expect them. The rhino, often viewed as solitary and stoic, becomes approachable through the presence of its companion, who may be a spirit, a shadow, or simply a moment of inner calm. 
 
The Rhino and Friend is both playful and profound, offering a visual reminder that true friendship transcends form — and that strength often walks quietly alongside gentleness.

Rhino and Friend

In The Unraveled Bloom, the flower becomes both whole and undone. Petals of orange, red, and yellow radiate outward in fractured motion, evoking a blossom caught between flourishing and dissolving. The deconstruction reveals not decay, but transformation — a reminder that even in disarray, there is vibrancy, energy, and the promise of becoming something new. The composition celebrates imperfection as a path to beauty, inviting viewers to see the poetry in fragmentation and the resilience hidden in change.

The Unraveled Bloom

Whispers of the Spirit Collection 
This work honors the quiet strength in restraint — the dignity in withholding, the poise in pause. It speaks to the inner life of women: the words unsaid, the depths not always revealed, the silent decisions made with certainty and care. The figure or force implied here does not demand attention — it draws you in slowly, inviting stillness, reflection, and deep empathy.

The Shape of Her Silence

Whispers of the Spirit Collection 
In Seafoam Rain, the canvas captures the ethereal beauty of storm and stillness merging. Veils of purple, blue, and seafoam green gather like clouds heavy with memory, while gentle drippings trail downward, echoing rainfall that is both cleansing and mournful. The work evokes a liminal space — between sky and earth, presence and dissolution — where the natural cycle of gathering and release becomes a meditation on surrender, renewal, and the fluidity of emotion.

Seafoam Rain

Currents of Creation Collection 
There’s no clear center, no fixed boundary. Instead, this painting invites viewers to enter a space of chaos transformed into freedom — a kind of aesthetic rebellion against control, perfection, or silence. The work vibrates with movement, as if it were painted in one breath, or conjured by the elements themselves. Emotion uninhibited, or a spirit returning to its most primal truth.

Untamed

Metamorphic Journeys Collection 
This composition captures the quiet resilience of movement across shadowed waters. Turtles glide through a vast black ocean, their forms illuminated by waves that suggest both challenge and guidance.

Flowing Through the Dark

Currents of Creation Collection 
Freedom Takes Flight reflects the emotional journey toward liberation, growth, and self-discovery. Sweeping movement and layered currents of color create the feeling of ascension — as though something once restrained has finally found the space to rise, expand, and move freely. 
 
The bird-like energy within the composition is intentionally fluid rather than literal, symbolizing the universal desire for freedom of thought, spirit, creativity, and identity. Rich blues, luminous highlights, and upward-reaching forms evoke motion, transformation, and the courage required to move beyond fear and limitation. 
 
Set against an open white background, the piece carries a sense of lightness and possibility, allowing the movement within the painting to feel unrestricted and alive. Freedom Takes Flight serves as a reminder that freedom is often not a single moment, but a process — one that begins the instant we choose to rise beyond what once held us back.

Freedom Takes Flight

Falling Into the Abyss is a visceral exploration of the moment when control slips away and gravity takes over — emotionally, spiritually, or mentally. 
 
This painting doesn’t merely illustrate descent; it holds space for the vulnerability, fear, and quiet clarity that often emerge when we release what no longer anchors us. The “abyss” becomes a metaphor for transformation — for moments in life when we are unraveled, unsure, and in the tension of becoming. There is both weight and beauty in this fall, as though the very act of being lost is a sacred beginning. 
 
Falling Into the Abyss challenges the viewer to contemplate what lies on the other side of surrender — when the only direction is down, and yet, perhaps, through.

Falling into the Abyss

The work invites contemplation of life’s subtle contrasts: strength hidden within fragility, protection within tenderness, and movement within stillness. By abstracting natural forms, Of Fluff and Feather becomes more than a depiction of texture — it is a meditation on the beauty of balance and the resilience woven into even the lightest of things.

Of Fluff and Feather

Metamorphic Journey Collection 
This painting is not about the finished state — it honors the process. The moment between what was and what will be. A space filled with potential, uncertainty, and quiet power. It invites viewers to reflect on their own transitions: the silent shifts of identity, healing, love, and purpose that shape who we are — piece by piece, layer by layer.

The Unfolding

Currents of Creation Collection 
Islands of the Broken Hearted explores the emotional landscapes formed through heartbreak, distance, and healing. Suspended within calm teal waters, fragmented forms drift across the canvas like isolated emotional islands — separated by pain, memory, and silence, yet still connected beneath the surface by unseen currents. 
 
The composition carries both softness and tension. Dark flowing movement contrasts against lighter spaces, while warm copper and ivory tones emerge through the cooler background like traces of hope surviving within emotional fracture. Hidden within the abstract forms is the suggestion of a broken heart, symbolizing the vulnerability and quiet strength that often accompany seasons of loss and emotional separation. 
 
Rather than focusing solely on sorrow, Islands of the Broken Hearted reflects the resilience of the human spirit — the way people continue moving, healing, and searching for connection even after being wounded.

Islands of the Broken Hearted

Metamorphic Journey Collection 
There’s a tenderness in the composition, as if honoring the vulnerability of the in-between: the fragile beauty of not yet being fully transformed, but no longer who one once was. 
 
This piece invites viewers to reflect on their own transformations — the internal shifts that happen slowly, often unseen, until the day we emerge different, braver, softer, stronger.

Coming Out of the Cocoon

Currents of Creation Collection 
This painting speaks to the sacred role of the observer — the one who stands still while the world moves. There is something both ancient and spiritual in the act of watching the sea: honoring its power, its vastness, and its unpredictability. Whether seen as protectors, memory-keepers, or simply beings in awe, the “watchers” create a threshold between land and water, grounding the viewer while inviting contemplation of the unknown.

Watchers of the Sea

Currents of Creation Collection 
The painting reflects themes of endurance, vitality, and becoming. Crimson here is not only the color of fire and blood but also of persistence and renewal, symbolizing the courage to rise even from fractured or turbulent beginnings. The Crimson Rise invites viewers to witness the beauty in ascent, to see how passion and resilience carve a path toward light.

The Crimson Rise

Talk to the Hand is a vivid and assertive declaration captured on canvas — a visual moment of bold interruption and fierce individuality. With energetic strokes and dynamic contrasts, the painting evokes a figure (real or symbolic) placing up a barrier — a raised hand, a flash of gesture — that says “enough” without uttering a word. 
 
Colors clash or pulse to heighten the emotional impact, reflecting themes of resistance, boundary, and identity reclamation. Whether viewed as humorous sass, firm empowerment, or a reclaiming of personal space, the piece dares the viewer to confront where they draw their own lines and what they refuse to entertain any longer. 
 
There is humor, yes — but also depth: the quiet storm behind the gesture, the emotional charge behind keeping one's peace. Talk to the Hand speaks volumes, even in silence.

Talk to the Hand

The Lost City invites reflection on discovery, time, and the deeply human yearning to reconnect with what we’ve left behind — whether physical, emotional, or spiritual. It’s a work that honors the imagination’s power to rebuild the past and reimagine what lies beneath.

The Lost City

In Search of Peace evokes the emotional terrain of a soul seeking still waters. Through subtle shifts in color, gentle motion, and quiet layering, the painting captures the tender ache of searching — not for perfection, but for presence. Whether it’s the gentle arc of a horizon, drifting shapes, or hues that oscillate between warmth and cool, the composition invites the viewer to slow down, breathe, and listen. 
 
In Search of Peace is soft, yet brave. It recognizes that peace isn’t always a place — sometimes, it’s a direction. A path taken one step or one breath at a time.

In Search of Peace

Metamorphic Journeys Collection 
Continental Drift explores the quiet power of tectonic change — the kind of movement that happens deep beneath the surface, shaping landscapes and lives without immediate notice. Inspired by the natural process of shifting land masses, this painting mirrors emotional or spiritual evolution: gradual, inevitable, and deeply transformative. 
 
This piece is as much about distance as it is about connection — a reflection on what it means to grow apart from old versions of ourselves, relationships, or worldviews, while simultaneously moving toward something new. Continental Drift is both a map and a moment: of movement, memory, and becoming.

Continental Drift

Fractured Perception reflects the complex and often distorted ways we view ourselves while searching for identity, worth, and understanding. Layers of shifting color and fragmented movement create a visual landscape that feels unstable yet deeply alive — like reflections constantly changing depending on perspective, emotion, and experience. 
 
The composition moves between chaos and clarity, symbolizing the internal struggle between self-perception and truth. Darker tones weave through moments of light and color, suggesting the contrast between insecurity and confidence, doubt and hope, human perception and spiritual understanding. The elongated movement within the piece evokes the feeling of navigating through emotional noise while trying to recognize what is real beneath the distortion.

Fractured Perception

Whispers of the Spirit Collection 
The “secret” in the title is never revealed, yet it lingers — inviting viewers to imagine what unspoken bond ties these two creatures together. Is it a shared glance? A quiet moment in the forest? Or something entirely unknown and magical? This painting speaks to the joy of imagination, the sacredness of nature’s quiet moments, and the idea that wonder can live in the smallest exchanges. 
 
A Bird, a Chipmunk and a Secret reminds us that not all mysteries demand answers — some simply ask to be felt.

A Bird, a Chipmunk and a Secret

This piece changed as it dried. At first I saw movement and flame. Later, I saw her. 
 
She Rose from the Flames became a painting about transformation — about what survives difficult seasons and what emerges afterward stronger, wiser, and more defined. 
 
The metallic layers shift depending on the light, revealing new details over time, much like healing and growth themselves.

She Rose From the Flames

Whispers of the Spirit Collection 
This work speaks deeply to personal growth, faith, and the unseen hand that helps us course-correct — emotionally, spiritually, or creatively. Crooked Ways Made Straight holds space for all who have wandered and returned, and for the grace that meets us when we’re ready to walk forward in trust.

Crooked Ways Straight

Currents of Creation Collection 
When the Heat Speaks First is a visceral portrayal of moments when passion erupts ahead of reflection — when the fire within finds its voice before the mind can shape its words. With bold, fiery colors such as reds, oranges, and deep charcoals layered in dynamic motion, the painting evokes the sensation of emotional combustion: anger, desire, truth, or release boiling to the surface, unfiltered and unstoppable. 
 
 There is clarity in that chaos: a certain honesty in the flame that refuses to be contained. The piece doesn’t just express heat; it personifies it — as a living, breathing force that demands to be acknowledged. 
 
Whether interpreted as a personal outburst, a spiritual release, or a symbolic awakening, When the Heat Speaks First reminds us that not all fire is destructive — some simply wants to be seen.

When the Heat Speaks First

Currents of Creation Collection 
The work speaks to contemplation — the act of pausing long enough to witness how light, color, and form gather into harmony. Overlooking the Lake becomes not just an image of water, but a meditation on presence, stillness, and the beauty of seeing the world from above.

Overlooking the Lake

Coexisting Forces reflects the complexity of opposing energies learning to exist together rather than overpower one another. Flowing movement, layered textures, and contrasting tones create a visual dialogue between tension and harmony, revealing a composition that feels both turbulent and balanced at once. 
 
Rather than presenting good and evil as separate forces, Coexisting Forces explores how contradiction often exists within us all — courage alongside fear, peace beside unrest, restraint beside impulse. The painting invites viewers to reflect on the internal battles, emotional complexities, and unseen tensions that shape personal growth and human experience. 
 
This piece serves as a reminder that coexistence is not weakness. Sometimes the greatest strength is found in learning how opposing forces can occupy the same space while still moving forward.

Coexisting Forces

Currents of Creation Collection 
The composition invites reflection on the journey inherent in change: how we pass not in leaps, but through gradients, each transition carrying meaning. Whether read as light refracted, emotions unfolding, or life’s experiences cascading, the painting embodies the fullness of becoming. Through the Spectrum reminds us that beauty lies not at one end or the other, but in the passage itself — in the spectrum of existence that holds both intensity and calm, both fracture and connection.

Through the Spectrum

Metamorphic Journey Collection 
The painting celebrates the fluidity of identity, thought, and time — the sense that life does not move in straight lines, but in spirals of revisiting, shifting, and deepening. Its kinetic energy suggests both tension and release, chaos and harmony, growth and surrender. 
 
Turning Through Color invites viewers to embrace their own turning points, to see the beauty in the process of not just moving forward, but evolving through every shade of experience.

Turning Through Color

Metamorphic Journey Collection 
Shattering Limits speaks to the inner experience of breaking beyond emotional, creative, and spiritual boundaries. It honors that exact moment when silence gives way to expression, stillness gives way to movement, and fear yields to bold momentum. The energy within the piece is not chaotic, but deliberate — focused, purposeful, and triumphant. 
 
There is a sense of awe in the aftermath, in what has been pierced, overcome, or left behind. Shattering Limits celebrates personal velocity: the power of pushing through resistance, discovering one’s voice, and moving beyond the barriers that once seemed impossible to cross. 
 
This piece is a reminder that growth rarely happens within comfort. Sometimes transformation begins the moment we decide to move beyond the limits we once accepted as permanent.

Shattering Limits

This is a canvas of movement and stillness, clarity and mystery. It suggests a moment where something once unified becomes two distinct parts, each retaining its own dignity and power. Whether viewed as a metaphor for identity, relationship, or inner evolution, Royal Divide honors the beauty of boundaries, the necessity of parting, and the quiet elegance of standing alone.

Royale Divide

Currents of Creation Collection 
The interplay of colors creates a powerful tension: dryness against liquidity, silence against movement, absence against possibility. The painting reflects not only the scientific wonder of finding water beyond Earth, but also the symbolic weight of renewal in unlikely places. It is a meditation on survival, on the persistence of life’s essence, and on the beauty that emerges when the impossible becomes real.

Water on Mars

Metamorphic Journey Collection 
The Winged Awakening honors that sacred threshold where becoming begins — a space where identity, freedom, and grace unfurl simultaneously. It invites the viewer to remember that awakening is not always loud… but when it happens, the world shifts.

The Winged Awakening

Creation is a bold visual symphony that speaks to the primal moment when something emerges from nothing. The canvas pulses with life — forms unfolding, colors colliding, and pushing outward as if the very act of becoming is taking place before your eyes. Swaths of light and shadow may resemble cosmic swirls, organic growth, or elemental energy, blurring the line between the earthly and the divine. 
 
This work reflects the raw, untamed spark of origin — not quiet or gentle, but vibrant and unapologetic. Whether interpreted as the birth of a world, the beginning of a thought, or the ignition of purpose, Creation honors that sacred threshold where chaos meets design, where the invisible becomes visible. 
 
The painting invites each viewer to imagine their own genesis: a moment of clarity, a burst of inspiration, or a personal rebirth. It is the visual language of beginnings — full of potential, tension, and promise.

Creation

Soul Rinsing Waters captures the quiet, restorative experience of emotional release — the feeling of being cleansed, softened, and renewed after carrying the weight of life for too long. Flowing currents of color move across the canvas like cascading waters, carving pathways through tension, memory, and resistance. 
 
The layered movement within the piece suggests both power and gentleness coexisting together. Rich blues and greens create a sense of natural balance, while the open white space allows the composition to breathe, inviting moments of reflection and calm. The painting evokes the feeling of standing near rushing water — where thoughts quiet, burdens lighten, and clarity begins to return. 
 
Inspired by the healing presence of nature and the emotional release often found in stillness, Soul Rinsing Waters speaks to the human need for restoration. It is a reminder that renewal does not always arrive dramatically.

Soul Rinsing Waters

Metamorphic Journey Collection 
This work speaks to emotional and spiritual fortitude. It represents that moment just before impact — when fear and courage collide — and one must decide whether to run or rise. Facing the Oncoming Storms doesn’t just depict a weathered scene, it honors the inner landscape of those who dare to face life’s unknowns with open eyes and steady hearts.

Facing the Oncoming Storms

Metamorphic Journey Collection 
This piece speaks to intuition — that quiet, persistent voice within that urges movement, truth, and becoming. Rather than depict a literal figure, it renders the internal journey of listening, trusting, and finally letting go. Flight of the Inner Voice invites the viewer to reflect on their own moments of personal clarity — the ones that arrive not with noise, but with stillness and courage.

Flight of the Inner Voice

Metamorphic Journey Collection 
This piece isn’t just about time passing — it’s about what each moment gives us: the joy, the loss, the rebirth, and the wisdom gained. Like nature, we too are always becoming, shedding, blooming again. Seasons of Life is a reflection on that rhythm, a reminder that every phase carries purpose and beauty.

Seasons of Life

Tears in Motion is a tender and haunting portrayal of vulnerability in motion. The composition centers on a girl whose form seems to flow to the left — as though she is being swept sideways by an invisible current of emotion. 
 
The leftward drift suggests regression, reflection, or a pull toward the past — a place where sorrow lingers and healing hasn't yet found its footing. 
 
Tears in Motion invites the viewer to consider the beauty of emotional release — not as weakness, but as evidence of deep feeling and transformation. It honors the sacred moment when grief moves, not just through the heart, but across time and space, leaving traces of softness in its wake.

Tears In Motion

Currents of Creation Collection 
The composition evokes a sense of mystery and sanctuary, inviting the viewer into a hidden place of calm within the vastness of the unknown.

Violet Inlet

This interplay of cool and warm tones suggests the paradox of the ocean: a place of constant renewal, fragile beauty, and untamed strength. The painting captures a fleeting moment when light and tide converge, transforming the seascape into a living ember glowing between day and night.

Ocean's Ember

Into the Next Dimension is a portal, not just in form but in feeling — an invitation to transcend the ordinary and move toward the unexplored. With rich color contrasts, sweeping movement, and moments of deep stillness, the painting conjures the sense of being at the edge of something vast: a new realm, a new mindset, a new self. 
 
Whether the viewer sees cosmic space, spiritual awakening, or internal transformation, the work hums with the energy of transition. Arcs of light, streaks of motion, and dimensional layering hint at a crossing — one not of escape, but of evolution. The composition offers no clear map, only momentum, and that is its power: it trusts the viewer to move forward without needing all the answers. 
 
Into the Next Dimension is both vision and vibration. It reflects the beautiful, terrifying, and necessary act of stepping beyond boundaries — into the wild mystery of becoming.

Into the Next Dimension

Energy Migration captures the feeling of movement without boundaries — a flowing exchange of energy traveling across unseen pathways of connection, memory, and transformation. Vibrant passages of crimson, teal, cobalt, silver, and soft violet emerge and dissolve against expansive white space, creating the impression of motion unfolding through atmosphere and distance. The composition feels alive with rhythm, as though pulses of energy are migrating from one form, place, or state of being into another. 
 
Energy Migration speaks to the invisible exchanges constantly moving through our lives — emotion, thought, spirit, memory, and human connection traveling beyond physical boundaries. The painting reflects the idea that energy never truly disappears; it transforms, relocates, and continues forward, carrying traces of where it has been while shaping what comes next.

Energy Migration

Whispers of the Spirit Collection 
Rather than centering on sorrow, this piece embraces the grace found in endings. It honors the pause before new steps begin — a sacred threshold where memory, gratitude, and uncertainty meet. Whether interpreted as a personal parting, a spiritual release, or a symbolic transformation, In the Glow of Departure speaks to the quiet courage required to move forward. 
 
It is not the silence of absence, but the hush of becoming. A final light before the next horizon.

In the Glow of Departure

Whispers of the Spirit Collection 
This piece explores the spiritual duality of its title. Grace — the unearned, the radiant, the gentle unfolding — dances with mercy, the restraint of judgment, the choice to soften. The composition invites viewers to reflect on their own experiences of receiving or offering compassion, and how those moments shape inner strength.

Grace and Mercy

Voices Rising reflects the powerful emergence of individual expression within a collective human experience. Against a dark atmospheric background, illuminated vertical forms rise upward like voices, figures, or spirits moving toward light, recognition, and release. Each form carries its own presence and movement, yet together they create a unified rhythm filled with energy, emotion, and momentum. 
 
The painting explores the idea that every voice carries significance — even those once silenced, overlooked, or hidden within darkness. Warm glowing tones emerge through deep shadows, symbolizing resilience, identity, courage, and the transformative power of being seen and heard. The layered textures and upward movement create a feeling of emotional elevation, as though something deeply human is awakening and rising together. 
 
Voices Rising speaks to connection, visibility, and the shared strength found within collective expression.

Voices Rising

This exhibition reflects a personal season of transformation. After many years in a corporate career, painting became my way of exploring movement, change, and spiritual growth. Each canvas captures a moment in that journey—like stepping from the outside world into a place of quiet reflection. For me, creating these works felt like walking from outside into home.

This Is My Exodus