I have an obsession with layers. The paintings, sculptural objects, collages, and installations I make are literally and figuratively multi-layered. I like to think my works bring a feeling of 90’s Lisa Frank aesthetics while referencing Op Art, quilting, Folk Art, Hard edge painting, Nail Art, and general surface pattern design.

I like to explore multiple projects at a time, working in painting, fibers, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and installation simultaneously. My emotions deeply influence me, and I let what is happening in my personal life guide what happens in my studio. My late mother was a talented seamstress, quilter, and craftswoman, and, in my own way, I have found a way to “quilt” and “stitch” my works together to create finished “sewn” pieces.

These pieces come out of the work from my MFA thesis, Busy Work, and are an exploration of staying busy, keeping occupied, and making so-called “busy” work. Today, that "busy work" takes on a new meaning. Balancing a demanding high school art teaching career with the beautiful, exhausting realities of parenting often pulls me in a thousand directions and cuts my studio time short—making the act of creating art a precious, stolen necessity. While Busy Work has its roots in a deep, overwhelming sense of grief, loss, and longing, the works are also celebratory: of colorful lives well-lived, of my own journey through motherhood, and of generations of women making art through craft.