Recently graduated with a degree in Studio Art, I am in the beginning stages of my career

and life that lay ahead. I get to decide who I am, who I want to become, and what I want to share

through my work. Painting is a physical manifestation of my state of mind, and I explore its

complexities through my creative process. Mixing paint colors, I inhale. Moving my brush across

the canvas, I exhale. Through the utilization of layering and mark-making in varying opacities,

colors, and shapes, I breathe life into my work. Seeing beauty in the everyday, I find inspiration

from the natural world and want to encourage others to do the same; to slow down and

appreciate the value of life and the world around them.

Each of my works are a letter of appreciation for life on earth, relying on color, patterns,

and value inspired by natural landscapes to create a compositional balance. A heavy emphasis on

the use of brushstrokes, varying in both size and shape, creates movement within my work to

push a dynamic flow that keeps the eye moving and reinforces my belief that everything is

connected. Contrasting crisp lines and loose acrylic glazes serves to provide depth, emulating the

fluidity of humanity, memory, and thought. Color can have a major influence on mood and

emotion, so by working with bold uses of bright, saturated colors I focus on sharing the positive

aspects of life in a world that often dwells in the negatives.