I quit my job back in 2011 with a hope and dream that I could finally make a living as an artist while I raised my 2 very small at the time boys.

Now, they are big and teenagery and I will follow up with some recent photos of them in my stories over on IG.

I have done some pretty cool things over the past 14 years.

I’m deathly afraid of heights. But somehow I’ve painted several very large murals requiring some really high heights. Including a giant 1950s gas station inside of a huuuuge garage that houses many vintage Chevys.

I’ve traveled all over and have worked with some of the most amazing people on ridiculously cool projects and commissions.

I have never sky dived, but I want to.

I just recent got my second tattoo. It’s of succulents on my wrist - which I’ll tell you about some other time.

My first tattoo is on my , and I got when I was 19. And maybe someday I’ll share that story as well.

I cover my canvas in newspaper before I paint for a few reasons. But the one that feels most accurate to me right now is because most of the time my brain feels as chaotic as the newspaper looks on the canvas before I paint. And I love the feeling of creating order out of it. A recent ADHD diagnosis has helped me connect a lot of dots.

I love fitness, and hiking, and learning about nutrition. I spent most of my life overweight and fighting my body and now that I’m halfway through my 40s, I feel ready to make peace with it instead.

I paint a lot of houses and buildings and alleyways. All of them are self portraits and am always happy to share more about that.

In 2020, I started coaching artists on creating and growing their own art businesses…which I am still doing today and absolutely love that part of my work.

If I had to pick one word that would describe me most, it would be gritty.

I closed my downtown studio last year and now work out of a studio in my home. It’s great - and also hard to separate home and studio time. But I’m working on it.