PHOTO Courtesy: Claire Grob

“I would say @flesh.png (Instagram) is my biggest inspiration.Their work is a beautiful combination of realism and abstract. It has a playfully dark essence that’s hard to describe. My favorite piece is my most recent one; it won best in show and I’m pretty proud of that. It’s a painting of a friend of mine sitting on a log in a forest from a worm’s eye perspective. I think the colors worked out really nice. My favorite mediums are pen and ink because once you make a mark there’s no going back. It helps me to move forward with a piece rather than looking back and fixing or erasing every little thing.”