Originally from Washington State, I received my BFA from Pacific Lutheran University in Parkland Washington in 2000. I've spent the last 11 years travelling the U.S. and abroad. After a short career in agricultural anthropology and environmental science I've returned to the passion that has never wavered--my work as an artist. My work is a reflection of the human experience in both modern times and the natural environment. I currently split my time between the crowded suburbs of the Washington DC metropoliton area and the rural mountains of southern Arizona.
I’ve been making art all my life, transforming my world with shape and color, arranging line, form, and pattern for affect. My art is an expression of individual identity searching for place, acceptance, and love in an alienating world. My work focuses on the private experience of a moment, the underlying fears, desires, happiness, and memories ...the flood of emotion, thought and connection that envelops a moment in time.
I work with a variety of materials in both sculpture and painting. My process involves the building up of layers with both color and texture. Circles and squares permeate my work—squares as a symbol of the thoughts and emotions embedded into the experience of a moment, like a memory, and circles as a symbol of both time and self. My figures and portraits float amidst the abstract expression of the captured moment, like a snapshot from a dream or a memory of the experience.
