I am a fine art photographer and mixed-media artist whose work is rooted in the living world — in its patina, its textures, its light, and that sense of culture and mystery in what lies just beyond what is fully visible. Beauty, I have come to understand, is not a luxury — it is a biological need. And art that holds depth and natural complexity invites the nervous system to settle, the heart to open, and something essential in us to be recognized.

I have always been a seeker, drawn to what the living world holds and what it reveals over time — its fleeting light, the dappled shadow on a forest path, the layers of meaning in what has endured. Back in the studio, a collection of my images and paintings, or fragments of them, come alive through a creative impulse that is always in service of the same intention: to bring resonance, natural beauty, and a felt sense of healing into the spaces and lives the work will inhabit.

After twenty years living in Rome, returning every spring and fall, that impulse has led me from Italy to the California coast, to the rainforests of Thailand and Costa Rica, where I go with a sense of awe and anticipation, because there is always something just ahead that waits beyond the bend.

I follow what calls. What I find has almost always been waiting for me.

Serendipity.

These are not only the questions I ask myself. When working with collectors, designers, and architects, I find that the most meaningful art emerges from conversations that matter — about the space, the feeling, and what the person living or working within it is truly yearning for.

What aesthetic, what depth and colors have been nudging you toward something new?

What textures and materials are calling to you?

What atmosphere have you been trying to bring into the interior space that wants to be transformed?

Everything I make is an attempt to bring that resonance into the world. That work has deepened over three decades into three distinct bodies of work:

Fresco Photography

Original photography transformed through multiple translucent layers into images that carry the depth, patina, and atmosphere of ancient fresco painting.

This is where it began. I coined the term in 2004 after twenty years of wandering Rome with a camera and full attention — superimposing photographs of monuments, statues, and architectural details with the worn stone, the marks left by centuries of human presence, the ancient aqueducts, built to carry water to a million souls — engineering in service of survival and community, of life itself. They awaken something we carry beneath the surface, in our very cells: the recognition of what is essential to life, and the fear of what happens when it disappears. The result is atmospheric and often muted, somewhere between a photograph and a painting, belonging fully to neither.

Something revealed rather than made.

Fresco Dreamscapes

Assembled from a personal archive of photographs, paintings, and sculptural fragments into entirely new imaginary scenes, where the familiar becomes dreamlike, history meets the present, and anything can find its way in — including a recurring feminine archetype rooted in the same wild ground as everything that grows.

Mixed-Media Collages

Where paint, fabric, found fragments, and botanical forms are pressed together until something brave and unguarded emerges — built to be entered, like crossing a threshold into a room that already knows you. When I am making I am excavating, following what calls. Hidden things surface: love notes, symbols, colors, and forms that seem to come through me rather than from me.

Learn more about my biophilic art practice and the science behind it. →

Over the years I have been commissioned to create large-scale art installations for hospitality, healthcare, universities, corporate environments, and residential properties. My work has been shown in prominent venues and gallery exhibitions around the world, and hangs in many distinguished private collections. It is currently on view at Gerald Bland Inc., New York, and available to view in person or virtually at my studio in Point Richmond, California.

“What I am always after is depth and the love of all living beings: beyond the surface, in the interior space, in the person standing before it.”  - Diane Epstein

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