Patina

I approached this painting as an exercise in time and accumulation. The layered greens, muted earth tones, and flashes of burnt orange reflect surfaces that have been lived with—marked, worn, and altered by experience. I wasn’t interested in perfection; I wanted the texture to feel weathered, as if the painting had its own history before it ever left the studio.

I worked in successive passes, allowing earlier decisions to remain visible beneath newer ones. Drips, scrapes, and softened edges became a language of erosion and persistence. This piece is about what remains after motion settles—about memory embedded in matter. Patina is not a moment, but a record of many moments pressed into a single surface.