bio
My
desire to be a painter was fostered early on in my hometown of Santa Fe New Mexico, where
I was raised by two working artists. I was
initially taken with a love for the luminosity and versatility of watercolor. I have since
gone on to work with encaustic, resin, silkscreen, gold leaf, India ink, colored pencil
and tin. My artwork begins as a watercolor, which is then coated with encaustic (beeswax
combined with resin) or an epoxy resin. The other media are then layered between the wax
or resin washes. There is a delicacy and softness that emanates from the layering of
art forms within the transparent surface. The result is an unusual depth, a
three-dimensional artwork with an emphasis on unique stylized patterns, shapes and
textures.
I find constant inspiration from my childhood memories of New Mexico, as
well as from the dark beauty of my home in Portland OR. With
my paintings I continually attempt to capture those magic ephemeral moments we all
experience, both real and imagined.
select juried and
invitational exhibitions
Bellevue Arts Museum Fair 2012
Brookside Art Annual 2011, Kansas
City MO- April 29 30 and May 1
Solo Show, Mariposa Gallery, June
2011, May 2012
Imprints- Impressions-
Improvisations, The Galleries, Cabarrus Arts Council North Carolina, March- May 2011
Small Works Show, Giacobbe
Fritz Gallery - December 2010-2012
Artist lecture, with Mary
Alayne Thomas and Sarah Siltala, Mariposa Gallery March 2009
The Churchill Gallery Spring
Artwalk, featured new artist, April 2009
Chairs, An Inviting
Exhibition, Act I Gallery 2009
Silent Auction, Opera
Southwest 36th Pre-Season Gala 2009
Day of the Dead Group Show,
Mariposa Gallery, October 2008-2011
Twelfth Annual Boston International Fine
Art Show, Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, November 2009
Family Show, Mariposa Gallery,
Albuquerque August 2008, April 2009, December 2010
Invitational Show "Art Squared"
Corrales Bosque Gallery, July- Sept 2008
Ann Arbor Arts Festival, Ann Arbor
Michigan, 2008
Art City Austin, Austin TX April 2008,
2009
International Small Works Show, Emerald
Gallery, Fairfield, Iowa, 2008
Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver,
Colorado, 2007
Masterworks of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
2007 &2008
Solo Exhibition, Mariposa Gallery,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2007
Show " Whenever we go away from
here", Center Space Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2006
Solo Exhibition, Frank and Dunyas
Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2006
"Encantada", Expo New Mexico,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2006
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Gallery, Annual
Juried Exhibition, National
Arts Club, New
York City, New York, 2006
Painted Violin Auction, El Paso Symphony,
El Paso, Texas, 2005
Taos National Exhibition of American
Watercolor, Taos Art Museum’s
Historic Nicolai
Fechin House, 2005
Solo Exhibition, Frank and Dunyas
Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2005
Solo Exhibition, Kindred Circle Gallery,
Edmonds, Washington, 2003
Show Exhibition, Mariposa Gallery,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2003
Group Show, Kindred Circle Gallery,
Edmonds, Washington, 2003
Best of the Northwest, Juried Exhibition,
Seattle, Washington, 2001-2003