How do you show how a place feels? Alive. A bit Magical. Calming. Restless. To me, the act of being in nature is inseparable from feeling. Every landscape has its own personality, which in turn can spark a different series of emotions. I rely on a play of colors and expressive brushstrokes in an attempt to relate the whole experience of a landscape, in the hopes that the viewer can build their own relationship and emotional attachment to it. My paintings are love letters to my favorite places, records of where I've been, and places I dream of going.. But more importantly, what are they to you?

I'm an acrylic painter raised in New England and recently (Summer 2023) settled in Portland, Maine. Having spent my life shuttling up and down the East Coast, I have a soft spot for both coastal scenes and the. news and hiking paths further inland. From an early age, I had a love of art and design - but for many years I was on the viewer-side, graduating from college with a Bachelor's in Art History. It hadn't even occurred to me that I would ever be a maker of art myself, until 2020 came around, and I found myself in need of a creative outlet to engage me. My new outlet quickly snowballed into a daily painting practice - first, painting from photos collected in past travels, and later expanding to photos from explorations along the coast and hikes throughout the Western Carolinas (where I was living at the time). Now, that daily practice is one of my greatest sources of fulfillment - and I can't imagine living without it.