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The Artist's Story
Art has always been a part of me. Not in the tidy, straight-line way where a person “finds their passion” and never looks back. For me, art has come in waves—flowing in, receding out, then returning again when life cracked me open.
As a teenager, it flowed as sketches of fierce women drawn to the soundtrack of goth music behind a locked bedroom door. It ebbed when I became a mother at 20, then returned in my early twenties while I studied Graphic Design and Illustration—only to ebb again when survival asked me to choose rent and a reliable car instead of canvas and paint.
It wasn’t until my kids became adults that the tide pulled me back again. Picking up my brush, I felt the relief of recognition: this is who I am.
And yet, something still felt missing. I was creating, but not fully alive. In 2023, life asked me to stop hiding the truths
I had stuffed away in a basement box—my values, my love for humanity, my deepest wounds and wisdom. When I finally spoke those truths aloud, everything unraveled. I left the life I knew, moved across the country, and began piecing myself back together—this time, with nothing boxed up, nothing left behind.
That’s when my art transformed. I realized I don’t paint just to make something beautiful. I paint because each piece is a lesson: a mirror showing me blind spots, truths, and the next step toward being unapologetically myself.
My paintings are visual transmissions of that journey. They are invitations. My hope is that when someone encounters my work—whether it’s a painting or the story I share with it—they feel a spark of
recognition.
A whisper that says:
It’s safe to unpack your own box. It’s time to live aligned with your essential self.
Because when you do, your authenticity becomes a gift—not just to you, but to everyone who encounters you.