Beauty and darkness, conflict and resolution, emotion and reason. My artwork represents my experience of the confounding reality of being human. My goal is to project the paradoxical nature of lived experience in compositions that engage the eye and the mind.

I’m a believer that psychology is destiny. On a quest to understand myself and those around me, I view my art practice as a laboratory for this work. I use a process of improvisational abstraction to access the unconscious corners of my psyche.

I’m committed to improvisation and intuition as guides to image-making, as they lead to novel outcomes. In addition to these guides, the drivers of my practice include color and composition. From these basic, formal building blocks, I create mixed media paintings that plumb my internal world.  I hope to encourage viewers to find feelings, associations and meanings in the work as they experience the relationship of forms and colors, and the messages encoded in gesture, texture and other subtle clues.

My undergraduate studies in philosophy and my experience as a journalist honed my critical thinking and editing skills. These ‘hard’ skills interplay with the responsiveness and looseness I cultivate in dance classes. On a good day, it all shows up in the studio.