A Family Portrait

A Family Portrait

Inspired by the immersive dioramas of natural history museums, this mixed media painting pairs richly detailed wildlife portraiture with a stylized, layered forest backdrop. It's a portrait of the families we earn, the ones held together not by resemblance but by showing up, and the universal truth that getting everyone to cooperate for one photo is never going to happen.

Oil and acrylic gouache on birch board panel | 28" x 20"