Artist Statement
In kindergarten, one of my drawings won a blue ribbon…painting became all I wanted to do.
Later I explored themes like technology, body image, gender roles, and began incorporating text into imagery.
However, the pace of life on the East Coast wasn’t for me—I was called north to the wilds of Alaska...
After college I worked with pottery and sculpture, but oil painting—and narrative human figures—eventually returned to my practice.
I once found the smell of oil paint in Venice and sat with a painter in an alley—I knew I was home.
In Southeast Alaska, color speaks louder against the moody backdrop of the Tongass and perpetual gray skies. My work layers figures into abstracted natural landscapes, inviting personal narrative and respite through beauty.