I create work that explores memory, identity, and the lives of everyday people through unconventional depictions of figures and familiar, often mundane settings. Obsession is a driving force in my life and work. It’s a longstanding part of how I move through the world, and in the studio, I channel it into texture, precision, and repetition.

I am a collage artist both physically and narratively. I cut up and deconstruct old paintings and images, layering them until they create a unified composition. I know the maker of the paintings I rework, I know her well. I know her fears, her elations, her desires, her downfalls and disgraces. I embrace her wildness while I add what the past fifteen years has taught me.

I also collage imagery, creating disjointed narratives deriving from my own and those of others. I often draw from photographs taken during adolescence: I am interested in how time overlaps - how a childhood image can exist beside an adult understanding, how memory stalls, repeats, and distorts. My work explores youthful joy, grief, spirituality, healing, and the quiet intensity of rural life.

Color and pattern are central to my practice. I’m drawn to unexpected and sometimes jarring palettes, and I find meditative focus in detailed, repetitive patterns. Oil paint is my primary medium for its immediacy and tactile quality, but I also work across materials, assembling scraps and discarded works into irregularly shaped collages, and making ceramics and sculptural objects that often inform my painting process.