Artist Statement

I create richly textured mixed-media paintings that merge the visual language of sacred art, textiles, and the natural world. Using layered panels, molding paste, metal leaf, collage, paint, and found materials, I construct intricate surfaces that evoke illuminated manuscripts, mosaics, heirloom fabrics, and architectural fragments. My work explores how memory, ritual, and ornament can serve as vessels for personal and collective stories.

Raised within a deeply religious environment, I developed an early fascination with religious pageantry, iconography, and symbolic imagery. These influences continue to inform my work, not through direct narrative, but through the creation of contemplative spaces where pattern, texture, and light become metaphors for transformation, resilience, and spiritual inquiry. Gold leaf, reflective surfaces, and recurring circular forms suggest portals, celestial bodies, relics, or moments of revelation, while stylized branches and leaves connect the work to the cycles of growth and renewal found in nature.

A significant influence on my recent work is the legacy of my mother and aunts, whose skill in sewing, embroidery, crocheting and fabric design reflected both creativity and resourcefulness during the years surrounding the Great Depression and World War II. I incorporate motifs derived from vintage textiles and sewing patterns, weaving them into complex compositions that honor family history while expanding it into a broader visual language of inheritance and memory.

Balancing geometric structure with organic movement, I unite diverse cultural and historical references into layered contemporary works that invite close observation. Through luminous color, intricate patterning, and tactile surfaces, I seek to create images that explore the enduring relationship between the sacred, the natural, and the deeply personal.

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