I come to painting after many years as a professionally trained fashion designer, an occupation focused on external utilitarianism and expression. My work allows me to rebel against that external focus and explore the complexity of memory and emotion. I use texture, repetition, color and composition to open up the view and bring forward moments that are lost and fleeting.

The work can begin many ways, often inspired by found imagery. My search for vintage photos and iconic works of art recall moments of my lost family history and are used as a starting point to recreate my own personal memories. I play with saturation to imbue the psychology of time while utilizing pattern and edges to create pathways for movement through the work. Pattern is used as a way to break the boundary of individual form and blur the space between, creating an abstracted form of the singular. These figures, groups, or objects are found and lost, dissipating into the scene. Perspectival shifts create spatial relationships that add to the ambiguity and clarity of what we notice as we cycle through the work, as if spinning through a recollection of our past while living squarely in the present. These are moments of unraveling and longing. They are a love letter to the child, teen and the adult who experience all the worlds joys, heartache, resentment, desire, loss, love, togetherness, and aloneness. They are the stories that we tell ourselves and the picture we choose to see, cracked open to reveal our vulnerability and our strength.