About My Work
My work is rooted in a curiosity of our relationship with ourselves, each other, and nature. I believe we are not separate from the world around us, but woven into the same living systems, continually shaping and being shaped by what surrounds us.
Much of my artwork explores what it means to feel connected in a world that can often feel rushed and fragmented. I’m drawn to the space in-between where we can slow down, pay attention, and become more aware of ourselves and our place within something larger.
My own experiences with disconnection and finding my way back to myself have deeply influenced the way I create. Art has been a way for me to process, explore, and make meaning from those experiences. It has taught me to trust intuition, embrace uncertainty, and allow things to take shape without always knowing where they are going.
I’m drawn to symbolism, organic forms, human and animal figures, and the ways these elements can overlap and transform into one another. My paintings often blur the boundaries between people and nature, exploring ideas of interconnection, transformation, belonging, and the cycles of life.
Whether I’m creating a painting, a mural, or Moss & Moon Mail, I create with the awareness that there is a living web connecting us to ourselves, to one another, and to the earth we all call home.
Artist statement
My work explores interconnection, ecology, energy, and the relationship between humans and the natural world. Through painting and intuitive visual storytelling, I create layered compositions that move between landscape, portraiture, and abstraction to express the living relationships between beings, environments, and unseen forces.
I am interested in how everything is connected, how human presence is not separate from nature, but embedded within it. My paintings often reflect this through merging forms, dissolving boundaries, and allowing figures, land, water, and organic matter to coexist within the same visual space. Rather than depicting fixed subjects, I aim to reveal states of relationship, transformation, and energetic exchange.
My process is intuitive and responsive. I begin with observation—spending time in nature, gathering visual impressions, and tuning into atmosphere and emotion—then allow the work to evolve through layering, gesture, and gradual emergence. I do not always work from a predetermined outcome; instead, I treat painting as a dialogue, where meaning unfolds through attention and time.
Spirituality is present in my practice as a lived sensitivity to energy, intuition, and the unseen dimensions of experience. I am inspired by the idea that perception itself can shift through presence, and that making art can be a way of deepening awareness and relationship with the world.
At its core, my work is an inquiry into belonging: how we relate to the earth, to other beings, and to ourselves. I create to explore what it means to be in connection—to the visible and invisible, the personal and ecological, the inner and outer landscapes that shape experience.
Education
May 2025
Usui/Holy Fire® III Reiki Ryoho
First and Second Degree Reiki
The International Center for Reiki Training
2018-2023
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art
Minor in Environmental & Sustainable Studies
Michigan State University
My Reiki practice is rooted in the Usui/Holy Fire® III Reiki Ryoho tradition. I completed both First and Second Degree training through the International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT), an internationally recognized organization dedicated to high standards of Reiki education. This lineage supports gentle yet powerful healing sessions that promote nervous system regulation, energetic balance, and deep rest.
My background is rooted in both art and the natural world. I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art with a concentration in painting from Michigan State University, while also exploring a wide range of creative mediums. My minor in Environmental & Sustainable Studies continues to inform the way I create — with nature, mindfulness, and connection at the center.