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
As a saturated field of red moves through sweeping gestures, scraped passages, and areas where the pigment thins, the painting envelops.
Endurance holds within intensity.
Encounter
56 x 54 inches
Oil, acrylic and oil stick on canvas
2026
Warm rose and coral hold a quiet, insistent presence, while incised lines move across the surface like traces of pressure.
Softness and interruption coexist, holding a moment of contact.
In Passing
48 x 48 inches
Oil on canvas
2026
Paint moves across the surface in shifting veils, while warmth gathers and disperses, holding a sense of grounded surrender.
Held Open
60 x 60 inches
Oil on canvas
2026
Thin veils of color and earlier marks shape what remains visible.
Nothing is fully resolved, yet nothing is lost.
Elsewhere
48 x 36 inches
Oil and oil stick on canvas
2026
There is a sense of arrival without destination.
Rising
56 x 54 inches
Oil and oil stick on canvas
2026
Saturated reds and corals gather around a pale vertical center, holding a tension between force and restraint.
What remains is not rupture, but reassembly.
Carried Through
60 x 60 inches
Oil and oil stick on canvas
2026
Broad gestures of coral, red, and pale pink move across the surface as darker passages gather and recede, holding momentum between resistance and release.
Drift
10 x 10 x 2.25 inches
Oil on canvas
2026
The painting holds a sense of release, without needing to arrive.
Held In Air
48 x 48 inches
Oil, acrylic and graphite on canvas
2026
Within a veiled surface, a luminous coral band hovers across a softened gray field, suspended rather than anchored, holding a quiet tension.
Gathered Light
56 x 56 inches
Oil on canvas
2026
Warmth gathers toward the center while earlier gestures remain beneath the surface.
Veiled layers of color and underlying marks hold the painting in light.
Passage
56 x 56 inches
Oil, oil stick and graphite on canvas
2026
Pale color, gestural marks, and open space move through the painting in quiet transition.
Pacific
60 x 48 inches
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2022
Depth holds without turbulence; calm coexists with power.
Shallow Light
48 x 48 inches
Oil on canvas
2023
Translucent passages drift across the surface, holding a sense of suspension and softness.
Anticipation
56 x 56 inches
Oil, acrylic and oil stick on canvas
2022
SOLD
The surface shifts between glow and recession, holding a quiet sense of breath within the color.
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