About the Artist

Through my art, I explore the ways people move through being human: what we carry, what protects us, the meaning we give to ordinary things, and what keeps us going.

I use familiar figures, animals, objects, and experiences as a way into those ideas. The imagery is recognizable, but it often points to something less visible. Things we fear, believe in, depend on, and hope for.

My own experience living with cancer has made me particularly interested in the strange coexistence of fear and joy. And in the ordinary things that take on greater meaning when life feels uncertain. The paintings aren't obviously about weighty topics, but they are made by someone whose understanding of time, safety, gratitude, and being alive has changed.

I borrow a lot of my visual language from printmaking and screen printing. I use saturated color, simplified shapes, crisp edges, repetition, and strong graphic composition. Then I punctuate it with details, humor, contradictions, or something that might change the way the larger image is understood. I want the paintings to hold their own from across a room, then reveal more when someone gets closer.

Across different bodies of work, I keep returning to the same questions: what do we hold onto, what do we protect, and how do we keep finding joy when we know perfectly well that life is unpredictable?