acrylic
The Foundation of My Practice
Where It All Began:
The Acrylic Canvas
During my gymnasium years—where I had a focus on visual arts—
I was introduced to a wide spectrum of mediums. Yet, it was acrylic that truly felt like an extension of my hand. I suited my artistic expression due to its rapid drying time. I could paint reactively, building complex layers in a single sitting. Especially the effect a top layer had on the underlying layer was fascinating to me. Later I would expand on this layer approach in my digital paintings.
My very first series of mature works were born from this medium—shattered, textured canvases that represent the raw energy of my early artistic voice.
'Jester in Shambles'
(2025)
My very first acrylic canvas to bear this style was titled "The Burden"—a name that now feels prophetic in retrospect. The piece took over six months to complete, though I rarely worked on it consecutively. Instead, I let it sit for months at a time, allowing the piece to sink in, while I wrestled with a heavy depression that had settled over my life.
It began as a realistic figurative painting, clean and controlled. But as my own worldview began to fracture, so too did the canvas. In a moment of raw frustration, I overprinted the original figure with hundreds of tiny white brushstrokes, obscuring what I had so carefully built. When I later stepped back, I noticed the strange, fragmented patterns these strokes had formed—chaos that somehow held a new kind of order. This accidental discovery ignited something in me. I began dividing the brushwork into deliberate geometric fields, separating them with sharp black ink lines to emphasize the cracks. Yet I was careful to preserve the original figure beneath, allowing it to peer through the fractures like a memory refusing to fade. "The Burden" was completed, and with it, my "Shattered Glass" style was born.
The Birth of
Shattered Glass"
'The Burden'
(2018)
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