About the Artist

I am a multidisciplinary artist exploring presence, absence, and the ways experience is carried through the body, landscape, and the spaces we inhabit. Working across painting, photography, and mixed media, I use gesture, atmosphere, layered surfaces, and organic form to explore what remains after love, loss, change, and return.

Much of my practice begins with lived experience—family separation, grief, healing, and the search for connection in places where language often falls short. Through figure, botanical form, abstraction, and environment, I create work that often begins with something deeply personal before expanding outward into broader questions of identity, resilience, belonging, and what it means to be seen.

While studying at the University of Denver, my thesis project, 96,665 Days, marked a turning point in my practice, deepening my commitment to work rooted in witness, relationship, and social inquiry. Through portraiture, research, and collaboration with a non-profit, I explored the effects of incarceration on families, communities, and the individuals working to rebuild their lives after release. (View Thesis To Read More)

Alongside my studio practice, my work in education, mentorship, and community engagement continues to shape how I listen, observe, and create. Raised in the Illinois and shaped by years living and working in Eastern North Carolina and recently returning to Colorado, my relationship to place continues to inform how I understand belonging, memory, and the environments we carry with us.

Outside the studio, I’m often exploring trails, water, and quiet places with my dog, Casper. These moments in nature continue to inform my relationship to stillness, reflection, and the atmospheres that find their way into my work.

At its core, my practice is an act of observation, remembrance, and return.