About Me

I am a mixed-media printmaker based in Philadelphia, PA.

I received my B.A. in Art- Printmaking Focus from Guilford College.

Though I specialize in woodcut and plate monotype, I work in a wide range of mediums including ceramic wheel throwing, various relief and intaglio printmaking methods, painting, and drawing.

My artmaking is motivated first and foremost by an almost reflexive need to draw that I have had since I can remember. All of my childhood homework sheets were covered by doodles in the margins, and I often got in trouble in class for drawing during instruction. Monotype printmaking, a focus of my practice, is an extension of this automatic drawing in its immediacy and fluidity.

I also find myself returning to childhood in my recent work in my use of natural materials (plant stenciling) and plants and animals as subject matter. I consistently created outdoors for much of my youth, whether that was making botanical potions and fairy houses or drawing with sidewalk chalk. My current focus honors that childhood connection to magic in the everyday very well. In my printmaking and ceramics, I infuse traditional imagery with a twist of whimsy and create abstractions from botanical sources.

I create this work to provide sweetness and solace to people throughout what can often be a mundane and hopeless existence. It is a statement against apathy and a reminder of the holiness in the everyday.