About Me

Welcome, I am glad you are here! If you like getting lost in nature or in something creative (or better yet, both), I think we will be friends.

How it Started: Art as Therapy

Art has been in my life for as long as I can remember. As a kid I was always drawing or painting something. As I grew older, creating art would periodically fall by the wayside. All of the responsibilities of adulthood kept nudging art out of my life. That was until hard periods of life hit; during those times I would always come back to my sketchbook or a canvas to create. It has been by consistent form of therapy and I always manage to find my way back to it.

Love of Nature

Being in nature is also therapeutic for me. Going on an afternoon hike with the dry, Colorado breeze blowing the amber and green-gold grasses across the meadow, and Pikes Peak standing tall in the background, is healing & inspiring.

Creating art that captures the beauty of the natural world is how I find balance in life. It reconnects me to something slower and truer about myself.

Nostalgia & Memories

What I love most is replicating inspiring moments (usually in nature), and both holding onto the memory and reflecting on its eventual fading, as memories tend to do overtime.

Something personal about me: I have always found life transitions difficult and emotional. My artworks reflect a broader metaphor for things - people, places, circumstances, memories - never staying the same. Something hard for me to accept, while at the same time making the present moment all the more special because of it.

Constantly inspired by the West

A few years ago I moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado and it has been nothing short of magical. The landscape is constantly taking my breath away. From the numerous hiking trails that I find myself visiting on the weekends, to the mountains and Pikes Peak in the backdrop of all views, to the golden sun, and to the warm community I've found here - it is the inspiration behind many of my pieces. I also love to travel to new places, taking long hikes and being in a nature in a new place - another large source of inspiration for my work. Every artwork I create starts from a moment I had, of "Wow, isn't this something?"

Thank you for visiting. I hope you find something here that resonates with you.