With a background in fine arts, graphic design and now education, I have found that my work has gravitated towards establishing a sense of relationships with my subjects as well as the viewer. Being in the field of education, I have developed relationships with my students as well as other educators. These relationships have forced me to explore new methods to create representational work. While keeping my design sensibility in tact, I attempt to use paint, photography, design and other media in new ways each time I work.

I also have a profound interest in color and how it can be used in different ways to reflect mood and create space. In the past, I would explore how color could create space by using different tones, layering different shapes over each other while working with a monochromatic palette. Over time, this theme evolved with my work as I began to work with the figure and became interested in how color could act in an expressive and suggestive manner.

Each day has brought me new ideas. While I continue down the path of an educator, I hope to find new ways to explore and create work that is both visually and conceptually engaging, and reflects the various relationships that I take part in on a day-to-day basis.