About Me
Every painting is a story. Told by an artist.
For most of my life, I didn’t know I was an artist. Or creative. Or able to bring what was in my heart to life. I thought things just had to stay the way they were. Until I made a change.
Growing up in East Texas, I was no stranger to poor. Paying the power bill was an event, family life a struggle, and dreams capped slightly above minimum wage. The difficulty shaped me in ways I didn’t fully understand at the time. When I finally left what I knew and went West to restart in my late twenties, I began to discover parts of myself that had been in hiding, that I never knew existed. The first discovery – love was possible. Then marrying Steve, renovating an old house from 1900, then becoming a mother and all of the great wonder and joy that Rachel and Aubrie entailed.
In the exhilaration though, a newfound complacency began settling in. I found myself watching shows for hours at a time and it gnawed at me like it never did before. I felt like there was more that I should be doing, that there was more to my story than simply having the option to watch someone else’s story. So I got into restoring furniture and I thought fixing up tables and chairs would do the trick. But when I painted my first sunset on the dresser shown below, I realized... there might be more.
On a whim, I bought a canvas and some acrylic to try something I’d never done before. And that night I painted and painted and painted. Stories from now and years ago began unexpectedly surfacing, some good and some gray, a mix of new and old that I didn’t recognize at first, but that have since become clear. My goal is to beautify your everyday and bring your memories and yet-memories to the surface when you look at what’s on your wall. 
If your walls could talk, what would they say? For many years growing up, I didn’t like that answer. Now I think the right question to ask is … what would you want them to say? If you’re like me, it’s probably a mix of the real and the imagined. I pray that the moments and abstractions you find here transport you to places of great depth and joy.
