I'm a master dabbler and curiosity keeps me ticking.

My through line and my heartbeat is color.

I strive for spontaneity, the unexpected, and texture from both my life and my work.

I believe color is a universal love language. From our very first memories to our day dreams, palettes inform our lives and transform our moods, energies, and spaces. Color is my favorite tool in the box.

I’m interested in our emotional story. I work to explore compositions that inspire inner movement and outer delight, often organizing my own emotions into shape puzzles. My process starts often with organic shapes, cut from paper or scribbled in pencil - distilling complex feelings and ideas down to their simplest forms. In this, I strive to balance imperfection. To perfect a pathway to surprise.

I’m inspired by childhood and childlike expression- spontaneous, textured, playful. I feel most connected to my process when surprises happen: the best parts being unplanned, an outcome of holding loosely and controlling less. In turn, my art becomes a visual mantra for the kind of life I hope to practice.

Creating is my act of defiance towards a tangled brain. My rememberance of play. Most of us live in spinning heads of overanalysis. I'm no different. My practice allows me space to work from intuition and feel. It allows me to unstuck myself from my own head and engage with instinct. The best playtime I have found.
It is my sincere hope, through color and form, that I can offer a space for others to lead with feeling, curiosity, play - and:

I am multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and muralist with an MA in Graphic/Web Design from MCAD. I split my time living between Minneapolis, Minnesota and Des Moines, Iowa.

My creative practice expands from my studio work in mixed-mediums with a primary focus on acrylics, collage, and stained glass to commercial work in product and graphic design, as well as mural installations. Past clients include Lancôme, Apple, Starbucks, Google, Meta, Target, Figma, Paramount/Nickelodeon, Sweet Green, Domestika, NBCSports, West Elm, and more.