Welcome to my website! I am an abstract painter and mixed media artist from Illinois. I have lived in Chicago since 2022. In 2017 I earned my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Southern Illinois University. I was awarded the Celine A. Chu Award for Excellence in Painting in 2016, and was a finalist in the Rickert Ziebold Trust Award in 2017. Along with my artistic accomplishments, I also have a BS & LBS1, and work full time as a special education teacher. In August 2024, I started my school's first Zine Club. Zine Club is a safe space for high school students to explore their creative interests, learn different paper-folding and book-binding techniques, collaborate with their peers, and share their ideas with the world. 

I primarily work in oil, acrylic, and charcoal, but also enjoy ceramics, watercolor and sketching. Collage, whether it appears in a finished painting or not, leaves footsteps throughout my artistic process. Countless paintings have been destroyed or repurposed over the course of their journeys. I draw inspiration from artists like Yayoi Kusama, Paul Klee, Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, and Pablo Picasso.

I am constantly pushing myself outside the realm of the visual arts. I spends her free time playing the ukulele, zine journaling, writing, and reading. I also go through phases of writing short stories, and working on my novel. 

In 2021, I transformed 9 original artworks into coloring pages to create a coloring book. The goal of the Weird Little Coloring Book is to provide a space where art is fun and accessible for all ages. 

Between 2018 and 2022, I stumbled across the opportunity to draw the chalkboard promoting local musicians and events for Hangar 9 in Carbondale, IL. Shoutout to Mark "The Markster" Wright for sharing his chalkboard skills, crossword puzzles, and a lifetime of stories and jokes. May he rock in peace.