Wholly Surrendered (2025)
Oil on linen canvas, 36×48″This was the first masterpiece I painted after a three-month creative block and a breakthrough retreat in Key West. There, I reconnected with my higher self and with God—returning home filled with gratitude and a renewed faith. This piece marks both spiritual and artistic surrender: a release of pride, perfectionism, and control.
I began by painting a small, unplanned study—using color straight from the tube, breaking my own “rules”—as a way to relearn trust in the process. The larger canvas became an act of devotion and acceptance, a celebration of divine inspiration flowing freely through disciplined hands.
We're All Sinking (2025)
Oil on linen canvas, 36×48″I created this piece during a season of answered prayers. The shell at the base mirrors the open hands of benediction—an image of humility and readiness to receive God’s blessings, forgiveness, and peace. The wave descending into the shell represents those divine answers—overflowing, awe-inspiring, and at times, overwhelming in their grace.
In this season of answered prayers when I was painting this, Harry and I got engaged, I won a generous grant for my business and found an amazing gallery to host my solo 30U30 Art Show.
Inside Out (2025)
Oil on linen canvas, 36×48″This painting was created during the darkest evenings of 2025, in the quiet months shaped by early sunsets and long stretches of solitude. While my partner traveled for work and I spent many nights alone at home, I discovered a surprising sense of peace rather than loneliness, an interior stillness that mirrored the winter landscape outside. As the season moved toward the Winter Solstice, the promise of returning light became both literal and spiritual.
On December 21, I felt compelled to take a risk and completely rework the sky, which had begun to feel lifeless. With the courage that comes from trusting that light always returns, I slowly reintroduced violet hues, allowing undertones of blue and burnt umber to surface and breathe new life into the painting. In doing so, the work was resurrected just in time to close the year.
The final painting of 2025 and the third in the Divine Maps collection, reflects the prayerful refrain “Your light will shine when all else fades.” The stormy atmosphere holds both confession and hope—acknowledging failure, mercy, and grace—while the light emerging from within speaks to a faith that does not depend on circumstances, but radiates outward even in the quiet, unseen seasons.
Into Marvelous Light (2026)
Oil on linen canvas, 24×36″This painting emerged at the beginning of 2026. As I moved through devotionals starting in the early chapters of the Bible, I found myself deeply resonating with the story of the Israelites at the Red Sea, standing at the edge of what felt like no return. After nearly a decade spent building a career in engineering and navigating the intensity of tech startups, I was confronting a quiet but persistent doubt: could I trust God to make a way in a path I had never seen before?
It was during this period that I was invited to share the first three Divine Maps paintings at an artist salon hosted by Church of the City. In articulating those works aloud, as the beginning of my testimony, I came to a realization that clarified my artistic voice. I am not drawn to painting before or after the miracle, but from within it. It is in the middle of the storm, at the height of uncertainty and awe, that my faith is most alive.
Into Marvelous Light is composed from this vantage point. The viewer stands where Moses might have stood, witnessing the sea part not from a distance, but from within the unfolding miracle itself. The waves rise on either side, shaped like horses charging forward, an echo of both the urgency of time and the symbolic passage into a new year. They move with force and inevitability, reminding us that life continues forward whether we are ready or not.
And yet, within that movement, a path is made.
The opening through the waters leads toward a quiet, radiant horizon—a light that does not deny the chaos surrounding it, but transcends it. This painting holds the tension between fear and faith, between the closing in of the past and the unknown ahead. It is a meditation on surrender at the threshold: when there is no turning back, and the only way forward is through trust.
Into Marvelous Light reflects the belief that even when the way is unseen, it is already being prepared. And that in stepping forward, we are not alone, but carried through.