About my work

Art and nature almost always find their way into my art. I believe it revolves around my love for organic forms and how they can work together, creating interesting patterns. It’s also because of my love of nature and the animals within it.

The work I have primarily been focusing on the past few years has been about the connections between patterns found in animals and plants, creating surreal animals and environments with them. Taking materials and forms from the natural world such as a hand, a leaf, animals, plants, which are symbolic and recognizable to people. I manipulate them to create a new object by either changing its form, perspective, color, and texture, giving the material within the new object and the form altogether a new purpose, meaning, and a new life. I enjoy how my pieces at first glance are familiar, but at second glance viewers see the hidden materials and patterns formed.

About Me

I am currently an Elementary Art Teacher in southern Maine. I graduated from the University of Southern Maine in 2018 with a Bachelors in Art and concentration in Painting and Art Education. I live in rural area outside of Portland where I am regularly visited by deer, porcupines, and many types of birds. My cat Zip is my main critic.

I hope you enjoy the art I create as much as I did making it.