About The Artwork
My process for painting happens more like a round table discussion between myself, my subconscious, the faeries, and all the people I interact with during the making of the work. I use painting to explore concepts or ideas that I desire to gain a deeper understanding, whether it be external prompts or more introspective explorations. My work ties itself together better the more I trust the process, even if it means I end up changing major elements of the painting when I thought it was nearly complete. A painting is finished when it stops talking to me.
Newest Work
Making Honey by Silver Arrow Art
Making Honey - 2025
Honey is not made by simply collecting pollen, and life cannot thrive where the dead are not allowed to rot.
The garden in the soul doesn’t grow overnight. Turning pollen into honey or blood into gold is an alchemical process where it hurts more before it gets better. Everything gets broken and reformed, down to the basic building blocks of our identities. It’s easy to gloss over what’s leeching your life when you’ve convinced yourself this is what you deserve, it’s who you are, or it’s the best it’s gonna get. It’s easy to cling to something that’s not working when youve spent years building it. It’s not about creating unwavering perfection, but mercilessly challenging everything we think we know and composting the things that keep moments of perfection from happening.
The Hermit by Silver Arrow Art
Silver Arrow Tarot
What started as a personal rendition of The Hermit ended up growing into the project of a lifetime. As I was painting The Hermit, I heard a little art fairy over my shoulder asking in quite a demanding tone “So you’re painting the whole deck, right?” At first the idea was impossible to conceptualize. I had never even completed a cohesive series at that point and now I was going to tackle a 78 card deck? But after that voice coming back repeatedly and incessantly, I gave into it and started my journey.
I didn’t just want to paint a tarot deck, I wanted to thoroughly explore each concept created by the cards to understand what they really mean to me. It’s a slow process but I think the patience will pay off.
Fae/Goblin by Silver Arrow Art
Shadow Work
Light cannot exist without dark, and this contrast keeps the cycles of life flowing. I use painting to process being alive, which often means diving into the scary parts of myself. I practice compassion in conversation through visual imagery. When I have deeper feelings, I ask questions. I find their roots, and ultimately there is a version of me wounded and frozen in time. I offer a hand and ask how to make things better, which often provides profound new ways of understanding myself and interacting more authentically with the world.
Creature at Cascade - 2022
Other Works
I am obligated to go wherever inspiration takes me, whether or not it is part of some larger narrative.
Sometimes it is meditation, sometimes they’re meditations, sometimes they’re exercises in pushing my limits.
