Hi, I'm so glad you're here and I hope you enjoy the art.
 
After receiving a BA in fine arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz (go banana slugs!), I moved to Denver where for two decades I poured my creativity into graphic design work, forgetting to nourish my soul with my own art making. In 2016, my life disintegrated and I found myself emotionally lost, severely depressed, and adjusting to a traumatic brain injury. I was introduced to art therapy and I sometimes say it's the water that is putting out the dumpster fire my life had become. It is slowly bringing me back to life.

I have always drawn, painted, collaged, and created mixed media work. So needle felting surprised me when it became my primary medium several years ago. For more information about what Needle Felting is, and how it has changed my art, see this page.

The act of connecting the fibers feels akin to the process I have been undergoing, of knitting the disparate pieces of my life back together, and finding new expressions of myself. Although it can be tedious, I approach it with a meditative mind, and find that it has freed me to be expressive in entirely new ways as I'm constantly experimenting and trying to let the wool be its wooly self.

My inspiration comes from the natural world around me, and I’ve been fortunate to live in the pacific northwest, the San Francisco bay area, and near the majestic Rocky mountains – there is just no end to the pictures I’ve made in my mind throughout the years. Many of my pieces feature animals, which I’m passionate about after having worked at the Denver Zoo. I usually have an idea in my head about a scene that I’d like to recreate, from memory. If I’m adding animals I research them while I’m working to understand their structure and form. The work becomes a celebration of the natural world as I create my own place in it.

Thank you for your interest. Please don’t hesitate to drop me a note if you have any questions or comments.