“I felt my life with both my hands.” ~ Emily Dickinson

My artwork is an investigation of both the interior and exterior landscapes in which I inhabit. My interior landscape references a wide variety of lived experiences: childhood, motherhood, feelings, memory, and intuition. My exterior landscape is comprised of observations of the outer world, such as the changing of the seasons, the rolling hills of the Central Plains, or even an ordinary shadow cast on a wall.

Most recently, I have been exploring collage-making. This new working method has opened up new possibilities in my art, affording unpredictable outcomes through the use of mark-making, line, shape, and color. By intuitively responding to different media, my personal sensibility is revealed. The layering of the materials, which includes hand-painted paper, graphite, charcoal, gesso, acrylic paint, watercolor paint, gouache, markers, magazine clippings, colored pencil, and ink, are traces of what has been, evidence of my existence.

The repetitive nature of my mark-making calls forth a time when, as a child, I found such satisfaction and joy by using my hands to create things. Whether I was writing calligraphy in a notebook or sewing cross-stitch on long car trips, my art is reminiscent of those experiences.

Through these personal explorations, my art is intended to be a rich, resting place for one’s eyes, an invitation for contemplation.