My Artistic Journey 

As a creative soul I was very fortunate to be raised in an artistic household.  I remember sitting with my grandmother at the early age of four while she taught me how to paint apples in watercolor. After school, my mother taught me the precision of the human form and brought me with her to adult art classes, where I practiced still-life.  My father is a fine furniture maker, and both of his parents were artists as well. Upon graduating high school, I attended community college at Quinebaug Valley Community college in CT, introducing me to classical artists and technique.  

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While working at a frame shop in Sarasota in my twenties, I fell in love with more contemporary artists, which ignited my imagination.  I would often go to live music shows in town and bring my sketchbook to practice surrealism to the music of my favorite bands.  People would see me creating and hire me for my skill with detail, for designs, logos, tattoos and portraits. At the time, I was a singer in an indie rock band, creating hand drawn promotional art for our ads and album covers.

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​In my early thirties I went through an artistic block. I got past it by putting process before product.  I began working larger --- getting messy -- loosening up and breaking all the rules. I started playing with acrylic paint on canvas which allowed me the same improvisational freedom with which I sing. My paint began to dance on the canvas and I found a whimsical style somewhere between detail and flow - between delicacy and adventure. 

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​Now in my fifties, I love to play with the full range of all that I have learned. Whether I am sketching quietly, painting nature scenes, or boldly pouring, spraying, splashing and sweeping paint, the consistency in my work is based in a devotion to beauty and healing.  Art has become a sacred space of peace and liberation which allows creative energy to flow through me. Art connects me with something greater than myself and is also a way to honor my upbringing and ancestors.  It brings me immense joy when one of my pieces finds its home, allowing me to share that magic with others.