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My Background
My Inspiration
My Background
I’ve known grief intimately longer than I can remember. Grief came to live with me when my mother died. I was 3 and a half years old. Her photographs were all I had of her and I spent the better part of my childhood just looking at them. I would look at an every detail and miss her. In time those pictures became my comfort and so my first
I’ve known grief intimately longer than I can remember. Grief came to live with me when my mother died. I was 3 and a half years old. Her photographs were all I had of her and I spent the better part of my childhood just looking at them. I would look at an every detail and miss her. In time those pictures became my comfort and so my first love as a result of grief was photography. I’m not sure we understood the effects of grief back then but one thing that happens when you experience a traumatic event accompanied by the loss of a loved one is that you get something we now call “grief brain”. It’s a real thing. As a child I found it very difficult to focus in school so I would sit quietly and doodle the day away. I didn’t know it but I was trying to heal and I guess the process helped. I have to give the bulk of my thanks to the unconditional love and support I got from my grandmother though. She was my rock and not a day goes by that I don’t think of her. As I got older, this love of photography and doodling never faded but as I became a teenager I found music which literally saved my life and looking at all the art on album covers was almost like the trilogy of everything that heals me. I thought I should become an album cover designer and decided to go to college to study art. Anyhow, life happened and my dreams went sideways but it didn't matter because I became a mom! My 2 boys became my everything. My babies. My beautiful rainbow inspiring rays of sunlight. Tragically, my oldest son died at the age of 22 and my shattered heart had nowhere to go except to where it already knew to go; my art. I don't know what I'm doing but I know what I want to do and that is: find peace, calm, acceptance, light and love. For me and for you.
My Medium
My Inspiration
My Background
I use many different mediums, such as watercolor, acrylics, rocks, glass, colored pencils, ink and photography. I believe that working in a single medium is restrictive to my artistic process. Each idea manifests in its own individual style
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
My Inspiration
I enjoy going to our beach in my spare time and many of my pieces are directly influenced by these days spent there. I love letting my feelings dictate what I create and the best things are the surprise pieces that emerge. My other inspiration is the music I listen to. My music is like one of my spiritual guides and there are many pieces
I enjoy going to our beach in my spare time and many of my pieces are directly influenced by these days spent there. I love letting my feelings dictate what I create and the best things are the surprise pieces that emerge. My other inspiration is the music I listen to. My music is like one of my spiritual guides and there are many pieces I’ve worked on that have been directly influenced by what I’m listening to at the moment.