Art
Artist Statement
My art emerges from my body as an ongoing somatic dialogue with the dance of creation and the ground of being from which this 3D world arises. Through years of artistic practice, I have come to understand my work as moving through a wide spectrum of consciousness, ranging from subtle, contemplative stillness to raw, instinctual embodiment and imaginative, chromatic exploration.
At times, my process is informed by quiet, meditative states where awareness feels close to the subtler energetic fields beneath matter. In these moments, the work carries a contemplative language in which the sacred becomes palpable through gentle stillness, spaciousness, and presence. At other times, the work arises from the primal animal body itself through movement, gesture, and raw mark-making.
There is also a playful, imaginative dimension to my practice that engages color, symbolism, and imagination as a form of play. This register allows the work to move beyond literal form and into dreamlike, mythic, and intuitive territories.
Over the years, this full-bodied range of embodied, contemplative, and imaginative expression has become increasingly precious to me. It’s given me a private oasis that feels both like play and prayer. I am interested in pursuing a level of honesty in my work that communicates both the lighter and more beautiful aspects of the human journey alongside the heavier and denser emotions that are often relegated to the shadow of the human psyche and suppressed within our culture. I seek to create art that feels fully authentic to me and supports the blossoming of my wholeness, including both the beautiful and the not-so-pretty parts. Through this work, I am ultimately interested in cultivating love, acceptance and compassion for all of it.
This is a space where all parts of me are welcome, and in turn, it invites the viewer to welcome, make room for, and hold compassion for all parts of themselves as well.
Some of the pieces shown here are available for private collection, while others are reserved for future exhibition. If a piece speaks to you, I welcome your inquiry.
Works created between 2016 and 2025 are in the process of being photographed and will be added soon.
Trauma Wounds (2015)
This body of work was born out of an assignment to create a series of distorted self-portraits. The unprocessed trauma I was carrying in body at the time, had reached a boiling point and something about observing my reflection on distorted surfaces and recording these impressions felt closer to the truth than other more “accurate” self-portraits I had made in the past. It was only years later, after becoming a psychotherapist- that I would come to find out that great Psychotherapists of the past like Carl Jung, had spoken about the inner fragmentation that takes place in psychological conflict and experiences of trauma. The fragmentation felt palpable to me at the time, and once again- I found healing through giving it expression on paper. This work also alludes to my intuitive awareness of the multiplicity of the human psyche- a concept that I was formally introduced to many years later through my training in Internal Family Systems (IFS).
Bone Tired (2015)
This body of work explores themes of grief, exhaustion, and existential tension. The ghostly figures that came through in this collection felt like the truest representation of how I felt inside at time and being able to put that down on paper was like medicine to my system. During this season, I found a lot of inspiration in the work of artists like Maja Ruznic and Marlene Dumas.
Almost Got Lost in a Dream (2014)
This body of work takes you into a time when I coped with the tensions of life and my own sense of existential disenchantment by diving headfirst into art making without any real plan or goal. Making these paintings was a form of self-soothing by which I allowed myself to be resourced by escaping into a fantastical world of visual euphoria.