Artist Statement
My process reflects everyday experiences through unexpected prisms. I draw on vibrant colors, material explorations, and luminosity through form and line. Painting can be a stage to illustrate life from an emotional reality. By exploring personal narrative, my work interweaves abstraction and representation with memory and fantasy. My physical painting process uses the entire body, which allows playfulness, confidence, and spontaneity. We are all part of a moment in time. Life can be beautiful in all its imperfection and mess.

My everyday experiences range from a chance encounter with a bird taking it’s last dyeing breaths to dancing the night away at our wedding. Energy pulses through me as I’m aware of the balance between life and death, yet at peace with my surroundings. We’re home. Then the next moment I’m a mother. I’m reminded of the memories of my mother, the intimate bond between a mother and child, and our history of seeking connections with one another which is what makes us human. As the sail fills with wind, the atmosphere changes with every moment in time. It becomes a very personal narrative to me, reminding us that in the midst of our pain and turmoil, what a joy it is to be alive.