Art & Design
I’ve worked as a designer and artist in San Francisco for over ten years before moving to Portland, Oregon. I’ve also called a few other places home including Baltimore, MD where I attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and New York City where the contrast between the urban landscape and the natural world first began to inspire my drawing practice.
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Reverent Sojourn Art Show
1/2/2025-2/28/2025
Hillsboro Public Library
2850 NE Brookwood Pkwy
Hillsboro, OR
Reverent: feeling or showing deep and solemn respect
Sojourn: to visit or stay for a time in a place

The art work I created over the past year is inspired by my experiences visiting the rivers of Oregon and by the important life sustaining water element of our planet. I've found rivers to be places of refuge and solace, as well as places to explore, play, and observe nature. At the river's edge I notice time moving quietly by as I listen to the sound of the wind in the trees. Ancient rocks worn smooth by the centuries remind me of the much bigger picture of the past and of the future. Birds, fish, butterflies, and many others have all met me at the river. Rivers nourish and sustain life. They create connections between places for people and animals. Through visiting Oregon's rivers and waterways I've found quiet places to connect to beauty and to deeply felt sources of inspiration.

  • In This Moment 1, mixed media, 15"x20"

  • In This Moment 2, mixed media, 15"x20"

  • Held by the Earth, mixed media, 24"x25"

  • In This Moment 3, mixed media, 15"x20"

  • In This Moment 4, mixed media, 15"x20"

  • Moon Tide, mixed media 24"x20"

  • Flowing Process 1, acrylic paint on canvas, 24"x24"

  • Flowing Process 2, acrylic paint on canvas, 24"x24"

  • Riverscape 1, mixed media, 20"x24"

  • Riverscape 2, mixed media, 20"x24"

Past Group Show
50 Women Artists Group Show
Ford Building Gallery (@fordgallery.pdx)
March & April 2024
Portland, OR

Flower Process, acrylic paint on canvas, 24”x24”

“Flower Process” is a painting that follows from a life-long, connection to and relationship with nature. While most of my work is and has been abstract, occasionally more representational imagery appears. My painting references a flower and leaves, along with abstract elements that represent a process. I appreciate that plants have their own inner processes, cycles, and rhythms that connect and parallel with my own life
and work.

Art Practice
My mixed media image (“Emerging”, 2014) represents a tiny sample of the many years of my art practice. I find inspiration, solace, joy, freedom, and refuge in nature. While I tend to live in cities, the natural world is always speaking to me, even if only through the cracks in the urban landscape and the liminal outer skirts where the land meets the ocean or the city meets the forest. Through the intuitive language of my art practice, my deeply felt connection to the natural environment finds expression. I also find inspiration through observing the beautiful, unusual, and unique in everyday existence.

Design Work
My design work supported a wide variety of businesses and organization in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. I’ve also created many personal design projects including a digital pattern project (as seen here), textile prints, and art books.