Hello and I am so happy you’ve made it to this page! My goal is to connect with you, and hopefully, encourage your own personal connection with the paintings made in my home, so that you may one day bring a unique work of art, into yours. I graduated with a BFA in Studio Art from The University of Texas at Austin. Upon graduation, I held various arts and education roles, including teaching middle school art in the Fort Worth Area.

Today, I am blessed to have the opportunity to stay home and raise my two little boys while chasing my dream of being an Artist. I’ve found joy and struggle in the challenge of balancing motherhood with my creative career. However, even on the hard days, there is so much inspiration to be found in watching children learn and grow to express themselves. This type of childlike expression finds its way into my studio practice regularly. In the early days of my little one’s lives, I began painting in my kitchen with babies and toddlers right beside me. I have since moved into a home studio, where I spend time experimenting with abstraction, textures, and the playful nature of color relationships.

Trying to make sense of spontaneous marks and shapes while cultivating a refined sense of order makes up the majority of my process, which I describe as very loose, childlike, and incredibly freeing. I’m interested in the organized chaos of everyday life, and the desire to bring something new into the world while cherishing and preserving the beauty and wonder of things from the past. I’m an avid appreciator of the old and weathered. Signs of age tell a story, and I often try to recreate similar moments of worn and weathered within my work through the building up and wiping away of countless layers and marks. A lot of my work has an almost “suspended motion” feeling to it, where speed and movement are evident, yet paused, as if to capture a fleeting moment in time. This is something I find myself doing regularly as a mother watching my babies turn into toddlers in the blink of an eye.

Ultimately, I aim to paint from my soul, whatever emotions and thoughts and inspirations happen to be brewing at the time of a studio session, is what gets laid out onto the canvas - and that could be completely opposing experiences and expressions at any given time, which truly makes each layer a record of my inner world. Sharing those layers with others is a vulnerable, yet incredibly blessed opportunity I never take for granted.

My joy is found in the connections and conversations with those who value and feel the spark in these paintings. There is truly no other feeling quite like meeting people who feel genuinely connected to the work that wanders out of my heart and home, and I appreciate you taking the time to view it, sincerely, Thank you.