about.

I have found refuge and communion in many different art forms throughout my life. It is the sacred space where I meet God, where my inner child learns to play, and where my trauma finds healing. This usually results in brightly colored abstracts and mountain vistas. I work mostly in acrylic, drawn to large canvases where my body can fully engage in a practice that frees me like a kite and holds me like an anchor.

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I usually start by visualizing the artwork, receiving imagery and color in my heart by gritting my teeth in anger, crying in grief, or laughing with joy. I try to translate that vision onto canvas as a means of catharsis. The results of this process are often unpredictable, but always a memorial to some transformative experience.

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My prayer is that my work gives people permission to encounter God in the viscera of their tragic and heroic lives, and that each piece may become a totem from which they can draw strength, or a mirror in which they can see themselves, soul-deep.