What do you notice,
when nothing asks to be seen?
This site is a gesture. It holds what I cannot say in words. You are welcome to wander.
This is not a portfolio in the usual sense. It is a place where fragments stay still just long enough to be felt.
There are many ways in — a mood, an image, a colour, a trace. The archive does not ask for a route.
I work with watercolour, monotype, ink, pencil, pastel, wax crayon and collage — often mixed media on paper. I return to flowers, windows, woods, sea, streets after rain, interiors and thresholds — not to describe them exactly, but to notice what remains after looking.
My images begin with small gestures: a wash, a stain, a line, a place where water changes the plan. I am interested in the moment when the subject is still visible, but already becoming something else.
The archive moves along a felt axis:
- trace pale, soft, almost gone
- core still forming, still being looked at
- threshold pressure, structure, fracture
You don’t need to understand the axis before looking. It is simply how the archive breathes.
education
- Mentorship with Nadezhda Matveeva, 2018 – present
- Matveev Art Studio, 2007 – 2018