One of my favorite questions at every festival I attend is what my medium is. Why? Because I can’t pick just one!

I’ve been crafting for as long as I can remember but first picked up a camera when I was twelve years old. It was a 35mm Minolta, and while I loved shooting, it was working in the dark room that really spoke to me. The smell of the chemicals, figuring out how much light to expose the paper to, the sound of the photos developing in the chemical bath - it taught me that the process of making art was emotionally satisfying.

Acrylic painting on canvas entered my life in high school; it was visits to the National Gallery’s Modern wing that really opened my eyes to the possibilities of what I could create.

I’m interested in work that feels uncomfortable, in art that leaves the viewer asking questions.

Festivals

Winter Market at The Basement on Byers, Staunton, VA

Safe Space Market Fall Festival, Richmond, VA

2022

2021

Fall Foliage Festival, Waynesboro, VA

Art on the Town, Staunton, VA

Make Waynesboro Member Sale, Waynesboro, VA

Group Exhibitions

“motte-and-bailey” and “in this valley of dying stars” - 40under40 at Shenandoah Valley Art Center, Waynesboro, VA

2022

2023

“zeno’s paradox” and “palindrome” - Art Speaks at The Bay School, Mathews, VA

“the law of vacant spaces” - 40under40 at Shenandoah Valley Art Center, Waynesboro, VA

“a million candles burning for the help that never came,” and “how the light gets in” - The Basement at Byers, Staunton, VA

“giving up,” “whirlpool,” “touchdown #3,” and “uranium fever,” - The Basement at Byers, Staunton, VA

2021

Awards

“palindrome,” Art Speaks at the Bay School’s Linda Walker Award (3rd place 2D)

2022