About the Artist

As a sculptor and painter, I work with a variety of mediums to tell personal stories. Oil painting and sculpting with urban waste were my first loves and have been the steppingstone to my artwork with clay. The specific inspiration for much of my work is as unknown as what I am going to dream each night, but there are times I have a specific destination for a piece. My current artwork is about fearless femininity, celebration of marriage equality, and womanhood.

My skirt sculptures blossomed years ago when I was challenged to paint a narrative inspired by my life. After finding a fantastically drama-filled diary I wrote during my adolescent years, I realized that I had spent most of my academic and professional life in a skirt - and so my narrative came to be: a series paintings I called My Life in Skirts.

Over the years, the skirt imagery I first used in my paintings has continued into my artwork with clay. Working with clay has given me a new voice for my narratives. My skirt sculptures encompass my personal internal dialogues, reflections of mood, acceptance of all that makes me a person, and my relationship to the world.