My work explores the friction between how we see ourselves and imposed societal expectations around gender, visibility, and power. I express these ideas through imagined figures inhabiting a fictionalized world. Drawing is my path inward, tapping on memory and observation. I begin with eyes closed letting my interior gaze guide my hand. These gestural forms become the foundations for my printmaking and painting.

From these initial drawings, expressive bodies emerge in confined spaces lit by sharp directional light and painted in an earthy palette punctuated with flashes of color. The figures feel isolated, suspended within a shared but emotionally charged terrain.

Growing up under the social rules of the 50s, 60s, and 70s—to be nice, quiet, accommodating, and contained—left me uneasy in my own skin. Art became my way to resist those expectations and make the invisible pressures on women visible.

My work moves between personal reflection and social commentary. The series I create often emerge from grief and transformation—whether ecological loss, displacement, or the search for belonging. The overarching concern centers on the tension between autonomy and belonging—the push and pull between who we are and who the world tells us to be.

Curiosity drives me to move between pencil, ink, pastel, gouache, oils, etching, monoprint, and digital media. I often combine print and paint, analog and digital, to discover what new forms might emerge.

Ultimately, I make art to reflect how our bodies reveal the multitude of influences that shape who we are.