Growing up in the Midwest where the seasons shift dramatically from winter to spring, summer and fall, I developed a strong appreciation for nature’s cycles. Each season brings its own palette, rhythm, and structure, which inspire and guide my creative process today.

Statement + Process:

My practice explores the repeating patterns that connect nature and the self; observations that have been deeply healing in my own life. By observing these patterns and letting them guide my process, I’m able to translate my own experiences into our shared relationship with nature and each other.

As someone who learns through experimentation, I love to mirror this in the studio by starting each piece without a plan beyond palette. I apply instinctive fluid layers where color and water naturally interact. These experiments then become my composition blueprints for the secondary structural layers that I apply.

Structure can be a stabilizing force to channel the insightful energy of spontaneity. It gives form to flow. This is a cyclical rhythm that I continually explore in my own life and love to experience firsthand in the studio.

Textiles:

I have spent more than twenty years in the interior design industry as a furniture procurement consultant, all while nurturing my painting and studio practice. The interplay between my professional life and my creative work has become a rich space for exploring the balance between order and flow. Drawing on my design industry experience and my love of color and pattern, I was inspired to develop a textile line. By digitally extracting sections of my large-scale paintings to create patterns for fabric and wallpaper, I can blend my intuitive and analytical sides.

Textiles have become the story arc of my overall process. Spontaneous guidance is given structure during my painting process. Those structures expand into new form through textiles, inspiring the process to begin all over again. It’s an exciting exploration of our endless cycles of growth.