aoverkamp :: fine art & design

Painting, Drawing, Making.

I’m drawn to the invisible threads that connect people, places, and experiences. When I can’t find a suitable connection, I attempt to invent one. My work explores emotional landscapes through memory, connection, and uncertainty, building layered maps of feeling and experience.

My paintings often blend abstraction with symbols, numbers, arcs, fragments to attempt a visual language that feels both familiar and cryptic. Using oil on panel, I build layered compositions that reflect internal shifts; emotional, psychological, and perceptual. Through brushwork that ranges from gestural to deliberate, I create a surface that becomes a record of thought and instinct. Broad, sweeping strokes sit alongside dry, scraped textures and translucent washes, just like a long forgotten city corner.