About Me
I’m a contemporary visual artist and therapist whose work explores the intersections of vulnerability, healing, and resilience. My paintings focus on the cracks and imperfections that make us human, the spaces where strength is born from struggle.
Raised in rural Washington, I’ve always been drawn to the raw textures and quiet transformations found in nature. That early connection continues to guide my creative process, where layers build upon one another to form depth and movement. Each piece becomes a meditation on repair, not erasing the past, but integrating it into something whole.
My background in therapy informs my creative lens. Both art and psychotherapy share a devotion to transformation, to finding meaning in what feels fragmented. Through my studio and my clinical work, I explore how beauty and belonging emerge from honesty and self-acceptance.
Ultimately, my art is an invitation to see ourselves more clearly: to honor the imperfect, the unfinished, and the quietly resilient within us all.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art is a conversation between memory and healing. Each piece begins as a feeling I can’t name, a pulse beneath the surface, and through color, texture, and movement, it finds form. Creating is how I listen to myself when words fall short.
For years, I moved through life feeling untethered, shaped by silence, loss, and longing. Painting became a way back to myself, a practice of reclaiming what once felt broken and turning it into something whole.
The “Foundations” series grew from that process. It’s about rebuilding, layer by layer, from the raw materials of experience. Each work carries fragments of fear, tenderness, and resilience, reimagined through light and structure. It’s less about erasing the past and more about learning to live inside it with grace.
I hope those who see my work feel recognized in some way, that they find space for their own reflection, courage, and calm. More than anything, I want my art to remind people that healing isn’t the absence of pain; it’s the art of transformation.