Artist Statement

Artist Statement

Painting is how I connect with the real me… the weird, unrefined girl who never fit in.  I paint to find home; that place where the rules are slack and my soul can meander around in pajamas eating ice cream, no makeup on, hair amess, safe to just be.

I spent the first 15 years of my adult life as a swing dance competitor, which has lent me a great deal of inspiration in my paintings.  Dance is completely ephemeral.  As such I find myself chasing those special moments when something magical happens in the dance of life; the swoosh of a dress or the light that blares through moving fabric for just one perfect moment, to capture it for keeps.

Life is always moving, and I especially enjoy creating movement on the 2 dimensional form that is a canvas.