Short Bio

At night, I paint and illustrate to light my way through this world. A 10 year hiatus to sculpt a child kept me from creating artwork, but it called to me. Now I've returned to being whole.

Statement

Thanks for dropping in and actively seeking out ways to be creative instead of putting it aside for another day. I’m no robot (ignore the blinking lights), so I confess I don’t make something every day, but I try to at least choose to do something creative every day that keeps the wheels greased and the inspiration flowing. Feel free to peruse my art posts, which I put up every two weeks, or poke around my gallery to see what I’m currently working on!

Biography

I’ve been passionate about painting ever since I first peeled saran wrap off of a watercolor painting in 2nd grade. I’ve tackled color pencils and charcoal in high school and graduated college at the University of Michigan-Flint getting to know about color theory, oils, animation, and printmaking.

Shortly after I graduated college, I entered the world of insurance, so I tucked all of the pencils, paints, papers, and canvases away, thinking I would come back to them. Then I had my sweet son and my energies shifted. My art supplies patiently waited. For ten years.

Any creative person will tell you how carved and hollow you feel after a long hiatus. Something happened at my insurance job at the end of 2018 that shifted my perspective on my creative life and I decided it was time to make room for it again. Time to find spaces in my day to paint again. Time to challenge myself with a medium I had never tackled before. Time to bite the bullet and start posting things online. And here I am! I couldn’t be happier and more sure of the choice I made. After spending two years creating artwork, posting blog articles, and maintaining my online gallery, I know this was the the life I was meant to have!