I draw directly from life, working with models to capture both their presence and personality. I use printmaking methods like lithography and woodcut, building images through layered marks, shifting tones, and expressive lines. Each drawing is both observation and record — a way of spending time with the complexity of another person’s body in space.
Most of my work is in grayscale on paper, often close to life size. Working without color keeps the focus on structure, gesture, and surface. My drawings fall somewhere between classical draftsmanship and raw immediacy: likeness matters, but so do distortion, tension, and feeling.
At the center of this work is the exchange between artist and model — the act of seeing and being seen. The marks show the passage of time and the decisions that shape each drawing. While the process is visible, the subject remains the heart of the work: someone real, present, and alive in the room.
