As a Boston area based painter and mixed media artist with a formal education in landscape architecture and urban design, I’m drawn to the endless geometry, structure, and sometimes lack of order of the urban environment. This urban geometry is where my ideas begin. As a designer, I’ve often been tasked with creating order where there is chaos. I look at my work as a painter in much the same way. With little sense of where I’ll end up, I begin to apply and scrape away paint, paper and other materials to and from a surface of canvas or wood. During this process, random and unexpected compositions are explored until a concrete idea materializes. I then work towards a more cohesive finished piece. I search for some sort of satisfying composition in something that begins as muddled and messy. It’s often initially very vague but eventually a solid idea develops and starts to appear on the surface. My work as a designer has been influenced by both my environmental concerns and my exposure to various fine art disciplines while attending RISD. My approach to design and the aesthetic principals I’ve developed as a landscape designer, have, in turn, influenced my work as a painter. The transition from designer to painter has allowed me to explore this idea of finding order at a more abstract level and given me the opportunity to expand upon my creative work as I delve into spatial compositions with more freedom.