30, HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

MY WORK IS A REFLECTION OF MY LOVE FOR NATURE AND THE UNIVERSE—THE TEXTURES, COLORS, AND FORMS THAT SURROUND US. I LIKE TO EXPERIMENT WITH TEXTURES AND COLOR, INSPIRED BY THE IMPRESSIONIST AND POST-IMPRESSIONIST MOVEMENTS.

SPENDING MOST OF MY TIME OUTDOORS WITH MY SKETCHBOOK HAS TRANSFORMED HOW I SEE THE WORLD; I STRIVE TO TRANSLATE THAT AWARENESS INTO MY ART, HIGHLIGHTING THE UNIQUE SHAPES AND COLORS OF PLANTS AND NATURAL PATTERNS. 

ART HAS ALWAYS BEEN A VITAL PART OF MY LIFE, HELPING ME NAVIGATE BOTH THE DIFFICULT AND JOYFUL MOMENTS. I BELIEVE IN TAKING TIME—SLOWING DOWN AND TRULY NOTICING WHAT INSPIRES ME. I HOPE THE VIEWER CAN GET LOST IN THE TEXTURES AND VIBRANT COLORS OF EACH PIECE, MAYBE DISCOVERING SOMETHING NEW ABOUT THE NATURAL WORLD IN THE PROCESS.

I SEE MY JOURNEY AS JUST THE BEGINNING, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO EXPLORING MORE, EXPERIMENTING WITH DIFFERENT MEDIUMS, AND SHARING THE WONDER OF THIS UNIVERSE THROUGH ART.