About Me

Connections with people, the natural world, and the past are all important to me and are subjects of my artwork. From an early age my family supplied me with pencils, paper, and time to create. 

 The shrine-like hush of a pine thicket in the woods, the slipperiness of mud oozing between my toes, the dizzying perspective observed when perching on a tree limb high above the ground all taught me what it is to be alive. Yet, in 

 addition to the joy and fun from my natural surroundings, I also experienced deep and disturbing emotions from experiences of early childhood sexual abuse.  So, just as I do figurative paintings that reflect the beauty I see in the outer world, I also use paint to explore ways to express my recurring feelings of hurt and undeserved inward shame.  

 I mainly paint in oils or acrylics, but I also enjoy using pencil, charcoal, and pastels on paper and wood.  And I've also been known to create small fairy houses out of papier mache.