An Actor's Muse - Original Acrylic Painting note card capturing the complexity of navigating

capturing the complexity of navigating modern life

This piece is a reflection on the world of education and the many people who hold it up—teachers

This painting captures that uninhibited childhood freedom—the willingness to act impulsively

tangled ball of yarn

signed on the front

An Actor's Muse - Original Acrylic Painting note card capturing the complexity of navigatingAn Actor's Muse began with a conversation. The model who sat for this painting spoke at length about her life as an actor the fears, the anxiety, the particular excitement of a vocation that asks you to inhabit someone else entirely. You could hear that her art was her life. As I painted I found myself wondering about that threshold: what it takes to step into a character, and what remains of yourself when you do. The painting holds both. A figure