Women are often told who to be before they can discover who they are.

Archetypes is a series of encaustic paintings that explores the roles, expectations, and contradictions imposed on women by society. Drawing on cultural myths, literary references, and personal truths, each piece gives form to a different archetype—some reverent, some rebellious, all revealing.

Through the luminous and layered medium of encaustic, these works expose the tensions between surface and substance, beauty and value, strength and silence. The figures are fragmented, masked, multiplied—performing joy, perfection, deference, sensuality—while something deeper presses forward. Beneath the polish: conflict, resilience, resistance.

Archetypes invites viewers to confront the frameworks we inherit, the myths we perpetuate, and the quiet ways we all participate in shaping or breaking the roles women are asked to play. These are not portraits. They are portraits-in-revolt.

What if the most powerful epics weren’t tales of conquest, but of compassion? Not about chosen heroes, but about everyday people who choose to rise—not above others, but into themselves?

This series redefines the epic. It doesn’t celebrate dominance, hierarchy, or divine intervention. It celebrates the inner journey—the fight for selfhood, truth, joy, and collective healing. Each work is a visual myth, layered with symbolic abstraction and luminous texture, envisioning a world shaped by authenticity, freedom, and radical kindness.

These are portraits of becoming. Of returning. Of choosing love over noise, presence over performance. Together, they form an epic of human potential—one not inherited, but imagined and made.

In this miniature series, lush botanicals, radiant birds, and symbolic fruits bloom in vibrant, surreal harmony—each no larger than a postcard, yet expansive in narrative and feeling.

Each piece is a meditation on desire, growth, and transformation. The fruits—both ripe and hidden—whisper of longing and temptation. The birds, mid-song or in stillness, evoke a yearning for liberation and flight. The flora twist and curl, not bound by realism but by the emotional truth of becoming something more than expected.