Originally from the Chicagoland area, a 3rd generation artist and daughter of a sculptural and automotive welder. Growing up my father and cousin Jamie, were my biggest inspirations. My love and early development for art and design started in grade school with fashion illustrations. As I grew, I studied a variety of art practices for about two years before entering beauty school. As an abstract, figurative and literary artist most of my work provokes emotion of the unspoken or not spoken enough on. The notion that art is a vibrational messenger to those who need it most, including myself is something I incorporate into every piece. Claiming and integrating our rawness and vulnerability is the main subject of my work seen in figures, the elements and florals. Inevitably, as I grow with the seasons of life, my work and subjects may follow suit.
A large portion of my work speaks on my own experiences as a woman. Of trauma, abuse, devastation, survival, love, loss and healing from a literary sense to a visual representation and integrating many stories that other women have shared with me from professional hairdressing of almost 20 years.
I’ve continued to pursue what gives me grace and time. My mission is to invite difficult, uncomfortable and introspective conversation amongst yourself and with each other long after my images are hung on a wall. To add another lens, more compassion, more awareness of the horrors, joys and complex range of what it means to be fully alive.