I graduated from Berea College with a BA in Studio Art, Fibers, and I’ve been a full time artist since 2015. My days are spent creating original art and illustrations and working on commissioned collaborations. I also teach watercolor workshops for adults, sell my work at art fairs and through my online shop and wholesale greeting cards and prints to many shops throughout the Southeast.
My art work has been published in Root & Star and Taproot magazines. I’ve received awards and grants from Penland School of Craft, the Kentucky Arts Council, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women.
For the last few years I’ve been creating a personal geography and botanical study of the 19 acres where I live in the hills outside of Berea, Kentucky. Hiking the same places repeatedly in every season, learning the names of the trees and plants, and watching plant communities grow and change has given me an intimate connection to this place and the plants that live here. My artwork has become the documentation of my seasonal forest finds and observations.
In addition to making artwork, for many years I’ve been immersed with my husband in the less conventional, but rewarding creative work of designing and building a house, studio, sheds and gardens that make up our homestead in the Kentucky countryside. Motivated by a desire to live a life of mindful simplicity, and to conserve natural resources we are in the process of creating sustainable, productive home place.