My lifelong painting practice is constantly shifting, always with the intention to simplify conditions and materials. I work mostly outside, incorporating and accommodating natural phenomena (ice, wind, earth, organic material) as the work takes shape. I’m interested in the way the outside world and its conditions affect my paintings, and want my paintings to represent and reflect anomalies of the living atmosphere, as processed through my human body, and carried out through my human mind.

I’m also interested in working with fixed conditions and geometric parameters within my paintings. This is also an effort at mimicking natural phenomena: experimenting with the edge of texture, color, and coherence utilizing the most fundamental shapes. My large-scale portal paintings began as an attempt to capture simple environmental phenomena—planetary bodies in conditions such as cloud patterns, ocean sunsets, snowstorms, wildfire smoke, and solar eclipses. Loosely based on the Japanese Enso, these paintings became a form of meditation as well. Simple compositions that aren’t really as simple as they seem.

While I have previously worked with materials like acrylics and gouache, I’m currently most interested in painting with nontoxic and natural pigments, watercolors, plasters, and other earth-friendlier materials. I want my materials to be traceable and biodegradable, able to return back into the ecological ecosystem without consequence.

Below is a selection of paintings made with/as Omo Studio. For custom inquiries or a current list of available works, please reach out.