Artist Statement
My childhood days were spent in the country making homes for bugs out of blades of grass, crafting artisan salads for my bunny rabbits from wildflowers, and painting with my grandmothers at their respective kitchen tables. Making stories with pictures and singing songs loudly with my family were the magical moments composing my childhood. I was at home in the outdoors and heaven on an imaginary stage. As Picasso says, "All children are artists. The problem is how he remains one when he grows up."
As a music major in college, I studied how the human body, mind, and spirit respond to rhythm and pitch. A few art professors led me to discover a love for bringing unlikely materials together in the form of mixed media collage. Feeling the paper textures between my fingers, snipping with tiny scissors, or cutting with a knife on the mat became another kind of music that brings healing and delight. The process of arranging paper colors and forms on the page shaped me into a composer of a visual song.
My mixed media artworks portray the deepest emotions of the human experience as vivid, botanical dreamscapes--intertwining loveliness and grief. Pieces exhibiting human bodies, animals, and plants on sparse and paint-splattered backgrounds depict the power of growth from loss and the coexistence of joy and pain.
I hope my artwork will inspire memories of your inner strength and resilience and encourage you to find beauty in every circumstance.
