Illustrating wildlife and wilderness, I work to inspire a culture of connection with nature. As an interdisciplinary artist, I primarily work as a painter, printmaker and ceramicist. Combinations of seemingly opposing dualities are held together in my work: playfulness and precision, sweetness and depth, grief and celebration. I draw from an arsenal of imagery among a diversity of traditions and disciplines: fine art, folk-art, visionary art, illustration and craft, throughout historical to contemporary times. Painting animals as reflections of our inner words and most intimate friends, creates an enhanced awareness, attunement and presence towards nature. 

As an artist, there's solidarity in the expressions of how animals and land communicate, requiring a sensitivity to hear them. My work is a celebration of the beauty and tenacity of unique ecologies and their abundant diversity, and how we need to preserve and protect this diversity, both natural and cultural, which I see as being interconnected

My artist process is a reflection of empathy and reverent rebelliousness—of values that I want to see leading us into a future centered around care, curiosity and conservation.

Born in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM, her parents, both of whom had backgrounds in craft & design, ran their own business restoring and appraising Navajo rugs. She received a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a concentration in Sustainability & Social Practice at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland. She currently lives near Lone Butte and the Cerrillos Mountains, south of Santa Fe.