about me

raised on a small farm in woodstock, connecticut, i was encouraged to create from my first breath. my mother and father, artists in their own right, gave five children the freedom to explore, imagine, and make, shaping a way of being that felt entirely our own.

with an endless desire to express myself, i studied pottery, photography, and acting in new york city, explored tattooing and found-object art, and kept searching for new ways to turn ideas and feelings into something tangible. years later, as my children were growing up, my creative outlets shifted to gigantic cardboard forts, sewing costumes for school plays i directed, and flower gardens.

creating has never felt optional to me. it is a lifeline.

when i found painting in 2025, it felt less like discovering something new and more like arriving somewhere i had been heading my entire life. everything i have loved—storytelling, color, movement, texture, performance, and mark-making—somehow led me to the brush.

i am drawn to the way art can create space for truth, resistance, beauty, discomfort, and change. i value creative communities that question injustice, challenge what is accepted, and make room for voices, experiences, and perspectives that deserve to be seen and heard.

in my studio, those ideas become personal. it is a place where i do not have to make myself smaller, quieter, more certain, or more easily understood. i can paint what i feel before i have language for it. anger can become color. vulnerability can become movement. joy can be enormous. strength can be soft, complicated, imperfect, and still powerful. there is something essential about that freedom for me—something grounding, necessary, and deeply alive.