Art / Design
I’ve worked as a designer and artist in San Francisco for over ten years before moving to Portland, Oregon. I’ve also called a few other places home including Baltimore, MD where I attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and New York City where the contrast between the urban landscape and the natural world first began to inspire my drawing practice.
See my work in the world
My painting “Flower Process” is on display at the Ford Building Gallery (@fordgallery.pdx) in Portland, OR through March & April 2024. My painting is part of a 50 women-artists group show.
24”x24”, acrylic paint on canvas
“Flower Process” is a painting that follows from a life-long, connection to and relationship with nature. I’ve been listening to, observing, and befriending the natural world since childhood. While most of my work is and has been abstract and often based on natural forms, occasionally more representational imagery appears. My painting references a flower and leaves, along with abstract elements that represent a process. This process of intuitive discovery and learning through art making is an important part of my work. I appreciate that plants also have their own inner processes, cycles, and rhythms that connect and parallel with my own life and work.
Art practice
My mixed media image (“Emerging”, 2014) represents a tiny sample of the many years of my art practice. I find inspiration, solace, joy, freedom, and refuge in nature. While I tend to live in cities, the natural world is always speaking to me, even if only through the cracks in the urban landscape and the liminal outer skirts where the land meets the ocean or the city meets the forest. Through the intuitive language of my art practice, my deeply felt connection to the natural environment finds expression. I also find inspiration through observing the beautiful, unusual, and unique in everyday existence.
Design work
My design work supported a wide variety of businesses and organization in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. I’ve also created many personal design projects including a digital pattern project (as seen here), textile prints, and art books.
