I grew up on the coast in Portland, Maine. At the age of 15 I attended the Maine College of Art, and earned my BFA in painting. I met my Native American teacher when I was 4-years-old and since then have been an advocate of the earth and all her creatures. Reclaiming ancient earth symbols and indigenous stories within my work is one of the ways I strive to honor the sacred and give it a visual place to reside.

I am also constantly amazed by this world that we are all a part of – and I draw inspiration everywhere from the vast depths of space to the tiniest molecules on earth. There is an infinite source of beauty and perfection all around us when we take the time to stop and look.

My work echoes a universal synthesis between Science and Philosophy/Spirituality – I believe we need a balance between these things to better understand the world. The idea of chaos and order is also present while I am painting, and that underneath what often seems to be this complex jumble of everything, there is in fact a grand design – like an eternal rhythm, or dance.

I am often inspired by fractal patterns in nature, or the nautilus shell which I use as a metaphor to depict this absolute (and scientific) beauty. My favorite image to illustrate this comes from the idea of the big bang theory – I think it is amazing to think about how at one time, everything that makes up the billions of life forms on this planet was all part of this one tiny seed of exploding cosmic energy, and that the only real separation we experience is due to the distance between our ever expanding energy in time and space. To me, this seems equally spiritual or magical as it does scientific. It is this kind of “magic” and scientific beauty, that I wish to portray.