I’ve been drawing and painting since I was a child. Growing up in the Mojave desert in a small town I took to studying in school and getting good grades as well as drawing a lot in my bedroom and listening to vinyl records. People started putting my art up on their walls when I was eight years old. So I had it in my head that I had some sort of talent. I learned to enjoy creating for other people.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My artwork reflects my life experience, which depicts what we all go through, dark and light, happy and sad, good and bad, beautiful and not so beautiful. Art is a mirror but it’s also a beacon of Hope for others to propel us up and forward to new and better things.

I show you my dark side and how by it I am radiated into new light. I am now able to be vulnerable, and so graced with the Joy of Abundance of Wonder. I find gratitude. I call out my fear (false-evidence-appearing-real). I am given courage to receive. When I accept pain or peace of any kind as part of the growing experience of life, I realize a greater contentment. Connecting with others this way will always nurture my capacity to love and overcome myself. My mind is set free and my heart is filled and sometimes broken.