Sun Dogs references the optical phenomenon in which faintly coloured light flanks the sun when it rests low on the horizon. The experience of encountering this atmospheric event informs a body of work concerned with iridescence and perceptual instability. Developed through extended walks in remote landscapes, the paintings bring distant vistas into dialogue with close observation, collapsing proximity and expanse, enclosure and horizon.

I build luminosity through accumulations of small, precise dots that mimic the light I am depicting, constructing glow through patient, repeated mark-making. I add successive layers of faintly-pigmented primary glazes, with paint added and removed at each stage, allowing light to emanate from within the image itself. Referencing both stained glass and LCD screens, the resulting glow hovers between natural and synthetic registers, situating perception at a threshold where the atmospheric becomes structural. The deeper you look, the more the repeated forms begin to vibrate, to question themselves, to ask what they are beyond what they represent.