2025 Collection: Contemporary Realism Beneath the Surface

This collection explores the human body immersed in water — a place where light bends, sound softens, and perception becomes fluid. Each painting lingers at the moment where clarity slips into distortion, using hyper-realistic detail to reveal emotional states that feel both intimate and universal. Through refraction, ripples, and suspended breath, the works investigate the spaces between stillness and movement, interior and exterior, surface and depth.

Although grounded in contemporary realism, the paintings transcend pure representation. They use the physicality of water as a metaphor for sensation, memory, and the shifting terrain of the self. These large-scale works invite slow looking: the longer one stays with them, the more layers of light, gesture, and presence emerge.

Together, the collection forms a meditation on transition — the thresholds we move through, often without words.

From Within | Oil on Canvas | 36 x 72 inches | 2025 “From Within” captures the suspended stillness of a face just beneath the water’s surface. Circular ripples radiate outward, distorting and refracting the light until the boundary between body and

From Within | Oil on Canvas | 36 x 72 inches | 2025

“From Within” captures the suspended stillness of a face just beneath the water’s surface. Circular ripples radiate outward, distorting and refracting the light until the boundary between body and water becomes beautifully unstable. With eyes closed and features dissolving into motion, the painting holds a moment of inward quiet — that threshold where sensation and consciousness blur. The long horizontal format amplifies the feeling of immersion, inviting the viewer into an intimate, dreamlike depth.

The Way Forward | Oil on Canvas | 48 x 72 inches | 2025 A solitary figure moves through glowing, rippling light, her body illuminated from below as she walks into deeper water. Seen from behind, the figure appears both grounded and weightless, caug

The Way Forward | Oil on Canvas | 48 x 72 inches | 2025

A solitary figure moves through glowing, rippling light, her body illuminated from below as she walks into deeper water. Seen from behind, the figure appears both grounded and weightless, caught between the solidity of form and the shifting patterns cast across her skin. “The Way Forward” captures a sense of direction without destination, a movement guided by intuition rather than certainty. It is a work about progression, vulnerability, and the subtle freedom of letting the water carry you forward.

The Revelation | Oil on Canvas | 36 x 48 inches | 2025 In “The Revelation,” bubbles rise across the face, catching and scattering light into brilliant fragments. The close crop magnifies the smallest details: the curve of a cheek, the delicate sh

The Revelation | Oil on Canvas | 36 x 48 inches | 2025

In “The Revelation,” bubbles rise across the face, catching and scattering light into brilliant fragments. The close crop magnifies the smallest details: the curve of a cheek, the delicate shifts in shadow, the ephemeral shimmer of air escaping underwater. The painting offers a moment where the physical and the emotional meet: a breath released, a thought surfacing, a flicker of recognition. Light becomes both illumination and veil, revealing while it distorts.

Threshold | Oil on Canvas | 36 x 48 inches | 2025 “Threshold” centers on a submerged face emerging toward the surface — eyes closed, lips parted, surrounded by the magnifying distortions of refracted water. The bubbles and shifting reflections crea

Threshold | Oil on Canvas | 36 x 48 inches | 2025

“Threshold” centers on a submerged face emerging toward the surface — eyes closed, lips parted, surrounded by the magnifying distortions of refracted water. The bubbles and shifting reflections create a sense of transition, as if the figure is caught mid-movement between two states. This is a portrait of breath, tension, and release; a moment where the body confronts the shifting boundary between what is above and what is below. It is visceral, tender, and full of quiet pressure.