I’m a Pacific Northwest based artist working to create expressive and vibrant oil paintings. I am drawn to images that resonate with high emotional energy and I employ painterly techniques in an attempt to build a sensory experience in movement and texture. I have a wide interest in subjects and create portraits, figurative works, landscapes, still life paintings, and the occasional abstract.

After my training at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the early 2000’s I worked as an artist and educator in Seattle before moving abroad. I exhibited and honed my portraiture skills in Shanghai, China for four years and took a deep dive into figurative and landscape work in Cape Town, South Africa for another three before returning to Washington State in the Summer of 2022. I am now working as an emerging artist in the Puget Sound arts scene with a studio at the Graphite Arts Center in Edmonds.

My figurative works are influenced by such contemprary artists as Mark Tennant and Malcolm Liepke and strive to capture unscripted, spontaneous moments in life.

My landscape works are influenced, in part, by my studies with Emily Brown at PAFA who encouraged a young budding artist (me!) to take a “shape-based” approach similar to my portrait work at the time. They are also influenced by the surrounding beauty in my home State of Washington and by the communities I lived in and places I traveled while living abroad in Shanghai and South Africa.