Artist Statement

My art speaks to my own past with mental health challenges and healing, also encouraging others to explore the same issues as part of our shared human experience. 

My focus is on looking at life through the prism of the female experience. I reflect and work towards understanding the complexity of being a human, and I use my art as a way to both explore and provoke contemplation about societal expectations and the quest for self-understanding and acceptance. 

I am purposefully bringing attention to the people that have been most important in my life in an effort to create a visual history of people that would otherwise be very easily forgotten and at times may seem invisible (particularly women).  My work is deeply personal and aims to actively put me at the center of it as the storyteller of lives, my own and that of others. I use music, old photographs and books as my main inspiration.  

Life for me is like a rokola, an old style jukebox, music always in the background for the highs and lows of life. For the joyous days dancing on the beach as a child with my aunts, great memories filled with laughter and the darker times when pulling myself from depression and learning to navigate life with anxiety.