These paintings are personal.

I pull from my own experiences, the people I love, fear, loss, recovery, relationships, and the things I’m still trying to understand. Much of this work also grew from facing fear and grief after losing my mother, who struggled with mental illness for much of her life and was killed in a hit-and-run.

Painting has always been a way for me to go deeper into the things I feel but don’t always have words for. I don’t begin with all the answers. The hearts, figures, lines and pathways develop as I work, pulling from memory, experience, emotion, and something deeper that I don’t always understand.

These paintings come from my life, but what you find in them belongs to you.

Some things are understood better when they are felt.