Over the years, how has your art evolved in terms of style, medium, and themes? Can you share some pivotal moments or influences that have shaped your artistic journey?

I have been creating art for decades. For me, almost the minute I was born, I was creating art. I was born with what you call a natural talent / a gift. I remember as a child, I would quietly sit at my desk and draw away the days. The fact that I grew up in an art household where my mother is an artist and my father is an art collector also reinforced my talents and helped shape my artistic leanings and direction in the arts. I had scholarships and won awards that facilitated my path through college.
Coming from academia, I am a graduate and "Notable Alumni" from Corcoran College of Art and Design George Washington University, Washington DC. For the longest time, my art was mainly figurative executed in an expressionistic way. I was trained in anatomy and that reflects in my earlier figurative work. Yet, with time like everything else, I evolved and my artwork developed as well. Since I am an avid nature lover, I felt that the natural world has to make an appearance in my art via my abstracted minimal aesthetics. Hence, I veered towards creating artwork albeit very modern and abstract but still inspired from nature and the environment around me, be it my voyages by the sea, or the feelings I feel through a stroll in the streets of NYC admiring its cityscape’s skyline. I bring what I see to my art and I let it be.

A pivotal moment that changed my artistic journey and made me more focused on my route was when my father had a heart attack. I remember that day, I sat at my bed thinking, "what am I doing in my life, I have this incredible gift and I am not doing anything with it. Why am I not doing what I love? Life is too short. I better start painting and producing artwork and doing what I was born to do." Sometimes life hits you hard but makes you think, and yes one's direction might be altered but in a good way.

A recent moment that has shaped my artistic journey happened this past June 2023 where I was told that my artwork will be featured on a screen in Times Square on Broadway in NYC. Thus, I went to the address and lo and behold in a huge screen my painting titled "Spectrum" was featured right in the heart of Broadway in front of the ticket center on a huge digital billboard next to the ads of major fashion houses like BVLGARI with actresses such as Anne Hatheway and model Gigi Hadid along with Broadway musicals - it was such a surreal moment that until now feels very out of this world.