Educated at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later transferred to The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, I graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting. Since graduating, I have been working as a fine artist, participating in various local and national exhibitions. My paintings often include mixed media with a strong focus on pattern, texture, and illustrated narratives. In 2004, I traveled to Newfoundland to participate in a 4-week artist residency., returning to live and work in Massachusetts. Winning two awards from the prestigious Providence Art club I use this support of the local arts community as a catapult to further my career as a Fine artist. My ultimate goal is to enroll in graduate school, earn my Masters of Fine Arts in Painting, and continue on as a professor and gallery artist.

I have a sarcastic and witty instinct to state that what lies behind my work and what drives me is the fact that I love to paint and create. I don’t mean to sound vague or mysterious and surely I’m not guided by a divine force but there ís something involved in painting that I have no control over. Delving deeper, I am conscious of the fact that my work is more than this. I paint from the experiences of life. Keeping the language of my work simple and at times seasoned with a twist of dark humor the viewer finds relative life like insight. It is this curious world and the variety of people in it which make life a mouthy muse for my art. Layering simplicity with details, mingling mood, objects, patterns, people, symbols, and situations, I work with an image a detail in time forming a multilayered visual story. Images change as I work each piece of offbeat visual vocabulary into the composition. Intuitively and skillfully I layer a surface with papers, patterns, and lines, building up texture or in some spots leaving a slick clean surface. Allowing for a strangely static yet complex image to emerge. The lack of movement and light source isolate the image, estranging the painting to the viewer. I create tension, uneasiness, and mystery I pose to the viewer a fragment of time to be questioned a moody image that with out further interpretation and reflection can seem vague or mysterious. Our own experiences take us down one side of a road that always has two sides. Examined closer with an open mind, one can see the complexities of life. I’m inspired and intrigued by duality, the conservative and liberal, darkness and light, good and evil, individual and the group, pretty and ugly, rich and poor the list is endless, as well as the interpretations.