Artist Statement

As a mixed media modern artist, my creative journey is defined by a passion for experimentation and a deep curiosity for the expressive potential of diverse materials. My practice merges traditional techniques with contemporary theatrical approaches gained from my years of training and work in the theater, resulting in work that both challenges and celebrates the boundaries between mediums. I am drawn to the interplay of texture, color, and form, and I strive to create visual experiences that invite viewers to reconsider their relationship with the familiar and the unexpected.

I am an artist; I have been creating in one form or another for as long as I can remember. Life has thrown me a few curveballs, and every-time I have had to rebuild it has been in creating art that I have found my way through. I attended the University of Maryland on a scholarship endowed by the Jim Henson Foundation, as an adult I worked at a 501c3 nonprofit theater organization, Twin Beach Players, in a variety of capacities including the Artistic Director there for 7 years. Now with a degenerative illness that has taken away my ability to perform and made it unsafe for me to build and paint at that scale I am on a new path of life. Finding my way into a new professional field, yet a familiar one. I love taking the wild and wonderful skills I have learned working in non-profit theater over the years and applying it to a Modern Art medium. I try to find beauty and power from even the darkest of situations and source material.