About My Work
I have always found inspiration in nature, not only in the magic found deep in the mountains and desert–the wilderness–but also in everyday moments, where I find “astounding beauty and color everywhere if you slow down enough to observe it.” My connection to nature has become not only a deep source of inspiration, but of wisdom and guidance in a rapidly changing and tumultuous world. This deepening connection to nature has included my own roots, and a delving into my Mexican ancestry and mestizo culture. All of this has caused a profound shift in my art in the past year, and has allowed the birth of my most recent body of work. “It is my hope that through interacting with my art, viewers may be inspired to slow down, connect with nature and the inherent beauty of their own humanity, and remember the path of peace and balance that can lead to our future.”
About Me
My mother often tells a story of how when I was three years old, I told her I would draw a picture everyday so that when I grew up, I would be an artist. And I stuck to that for years. With a father who was an US Air Force pilot, I was raised across much of the United States and abroad, moving year after year. Upon finishing high school, I did not pursue formal artistic training, believing the idea that it was impossible to make a living being creative. So I went to college and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Counseling, afterwards choosing to move to beautiful Jackson, WY. After a few years of stringing together ski bum jobs and never being able to shirk my creative itch, I decided to teach myself graphic design. It took some time, but I finally starting landing real design jobs and was able to turn my creative free time elsewhere.
In the fall of 2015, I fell in love with painting. I began putting time into developing as a painter, starting with acrylics, and eventually moving into watercolors. Over the next few years, I began getting shows around town and devoting more and more time to my art. It took twenty-seven years from my initial goal as a three year old, but in fall 2019 I made the jump to full time artist. Having spent a few years focusing on watercolors, in 2020 I shifted into oils and have been thoroughly enjoying the new medium. After several years in Wyoming, I relocated to the Hudson Valley in New York in 2024.