Kyle is a mixed-media painter working across acrylic, oil pastel, and watercolor on both paper and canvas, moving fluidly between figuration and abstraction. His work sits in the lineage of Art Brut and modern expressionism, drawing on Jean Dubuffet’s raw, unschooled mark-making, Basquiat’s frenetic energy and symbolic layering, de Kooning’s gestural distortion of the figure, and Pollock’s commitment to process and physicality. Danny Fox’s influence shows most directly in his figural language — loose, emotionally charged portraits and characters rendered with a folk-art immediacy rather than academic precision.

Faces recur constantly in his work, often pushed to the edge of legibility — recognizable as human but warped, fragmented, or dissolved into gesture and color. He treats the canvas as a space where control and chaos negotiate: figures emerge from and retreat back into abstract fields of texture and mark-making, never fully settling into either camp. Oil pastel adds a rawness and immediacy to his line work, watercolor introduces looseness and unpredictability, and acrylic gives him the body and layering needed for more built-up, textured surfaces.

The result is work that feels intuitive and unfiltered — figurative enough to hold a face, a body, a presence, but abstract enough to resist a single clean reading. It’s expressive, a little unruly, and rooted in the idea that painting can be both a record of feeling and a physical act.