My mixed-media paintings explore transformation, impermanence, and renewal through an intuitive, material-driven process. I combine traditional media—oil, acrylic, watercolor, ink, pastel, and charcoal—with unconventional materials such as house paint, sand, cardboard, joint compound, organic elements like seashells and leaves, and found debris gathered from streets and natural environments. Fragments of my children’s old homework, fabric, and other domestic materials are also integrated, reflecting the intersection of artmaking, motherhood, and daily life.

Each work evolves through cycles of layering, scraping, and rebuilding. I often work on repurposed surfaces—drop cloths, curtains, and thrifted canvases—using nontraditional tools such as butter knives, sandpaper, and screws to carve into the painted surface. These physical gestures reveal hidden textures that evoke urban decay, weathered architecture, and the passage of time. The process mirrors natural cycles of erosion and renewal, echoing the rhythms of the environments I move through.

Texture functions as the primary language in my work, carrying memory, emotion, and bodily experience. Through repetition and erasure, I explore tensions between control and surrender, stillness and motion, intimacy and expansion. My relationship to the ocean—shaped by years of surfing and swimming—deeply informs this rhythm. The fluidity and unpredictability of water parallel my studio practice, where chaos and order continuously negotiate space.

Environmental consciousness and resourcefulness are central to my practice. The materials I choose—found, salvaged, or domestic—reflect concerns of sustainability and humanity’s impact on the landscape. By incorporating what has been discarded, worn, or overlooked, I emphasize resilience and the quiet beauty of transformation embedded within decay.

Growing up in Pittsburgh, surrounded by steel bridges and industrial structures, instilled an early awareness of balance and tension—the fragile threshold between strength and collapse. This visual language continues to inform my work, merging urban remnants with organic forms. My paintings exist between worlds: domestic and industrial, personal and universal, material and emotional.

Ultimately, my practice is a meditation on impermanence and repair. Each painting becomes a site of accumulation and release—layered, imperfect, and alive—inviting viewers to reflect on transformation, adaptation, and the forms of beauty that emerge through time and change.