Open, Not Broken is a series of paintings that emerged from lived experience rather than concept. These works hold moments of vulnerability, dissociation, and return — places where something might have disappeared, but didn’t. Instead of collapse, there is openness. Instead of fracture, there is presence.
The paintings are not about fixing or resolving trauma, but about staying. About being held, suspended, witnessed, or quietly tethered to life when letting go might have been easier. Gestural marks, fields of color, and moments of light suggest what remains when certainty falls away — a body still breathing, a self still here.
This series speaks to endurance without armor. To openness as strength. To the truth that surviving does not require being unmarked — only unbroken.
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Held
60 x 60 inches
Oil on canvas
2026
Held is a large-scale oil painting dominated by a saturated field of red, layered through sweeping gestures, scraped passages, and areas where the pigment thins and breathes.
Near the upper center, a pale form emerges, built from softened whites. Faint vertical lines extend downward, lightly tethering it—tension between lift and grounding.
The painting envelops. Red becomes presence rather than background.
Endurance holds within intensity.
Encounter
56 x 54 inches
Oil, acrylic and oil stick on canvas
2026
A large, near-square field of warm rose and coral holds the viewer in a quiet but insistent presence. Incised lines move across the surface like traces of pressure or attention—marks that feel worked into the painting rather than placed upon it.
The surface carries a sense of duration, as if it has been stayed with rather than resolved.
Softness and interruption coexist. The work does not narrate an event; it holds the moment of contact itself—between body and surface, viewer and space.
In Passing
48 x 48 inches
Oil on canvas
2026
In Passing moves across the surface in veils of rose, coral, and pale white, as if something has just passed through — not violently, but completely. The center line dissolves into softness, suggesting motion rather than fracture.
Areas of warmth gather and disperse, creating a feeling of surrender that remains grounded and intact.
There is no rupture here. Instead, the painting holds the sensation of being carried by force without losing form — openness without collapse.
Rising
56 x 54 inches
Oil and oil stick on canvas
2026
Rising holds the moment just before full emergence, where a vertical structure gathers at the center — not rigid, but becoming.
Fields of saturated red and coral press outward, while pale pinks and softened whites open space within the heat. Charcoal lines trace a body-like architecture, suggesting spine, stem, or scaffold — something forming from the inside out.
The surface carries both urgency and restraint. Broad gestures move across the canvas, then pause. Areas are scraped back, thinned, allowed to breathe.
What remains is not rupture, but reassembly.
Elsewhere
48 x 36 inches
Oil and oil stick on canvas
2026
Elsewhere is an imagined place—quiet, open, and unbound by geography. Layers of green and blue create an atmospheric field that invites pause and presence rather than interpretation.
The work offers a sense of arrival without destination, a space that feels both expansive and held.
Drift
10 x 10 x 2.25 inches
Oil on canvas
2026
Drift explores the space between tension and surrender. Gesture moves softly across the surface, loosening and re-gathering in a rhythm that feels both intuitive and deliberate. There is no rupture here—only movement.
Within its intimate scale, the painting holds a quiet steadiness. Layers shift, hover, and settle, suggesting that openness is not collapse, but a state of subtle resilience.
Like the broader Open, Not Broken series, Drift reflects a practice of staying present inside change—allowing motion without losing structure.
Held In Air
48 x 48 inches
Oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas
2026
Held in Air inhabits a space between vulnerability and steadiness. A luminous coral band hovers across a softened grey field, suspended rather than anchored—exposed yet supported.
Marks emerge, dissolve, and reappear within a veiled atmosphere, tracing gestures that feel both searching and structural. The surface does not resolve into certainty; it remains open.
Balanced between exposure and containment, the painting sustains a quiet tension while remaining intact.
Gathered Light
56 x 56 inches
Oil on canvas
2026
In Gathered Light, warmth gathers toward the center while earlier gestures remain embedded beneath the surface, absorbed into the structure rather than erased.
Layers of veiled color and underlying marks create a field where form is felt without becoming fixed.
The painting settles into a state of presence, held in light.
From Above
30 x 30 inches
Oil, oil stick and graphite on canvas
2026
From Above reflects a subtle shift in perspective—an elevated point of viewing that hovers without detaching. Forms gather and release. Edges remain open, and the painting holds a sense of movement without settling.
A luminous field of orange, coral, and flushed pink unfolds; rubbed passages and earlier gestures remain visible. Sweeping strokes shift across the surface, while loose charcoal lines sketch and dissolve.
This is a painting about staying.
Pacific
60 x 48 inches
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2022
Pacific holds depth without turbulence. A saturated field of blue gathers, built through translucent passages and denser sweeps that suggest movement held in restraint.
Structure remains quiet—softness opening against firmer gestures, creating distance.
Less about water than atmosphere—space carries weight and calm coexists with power.
Anticipation
56 x 56 inches
Oil, acrylic and oil stick on canvas
2022
SOLD
In Anticipation a luminous field of warm yellow unfolds, built through layers of oil, where opaque passages meet translucent veils.
The surface shifts—glow, recession, return—holding a sense of breath within the color.
Warmth is lifted rather than forceful. The painting hovers between presence and quiet pause—as if light is gathering itself.
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