I’m an artist who works across a wide range of mediums: painting, sculpture, sewing, costumes, puppets. My work is inspired by the natural world and the stories that connect us to it. Organisms large and small are connected in an ecological web, and as meaning-making animals, myths are the way humans describe those connections. I am drawn to ambiguous mythological figures like Baba Yaga and Mari Lwyd, and their ties to symbolism of both life and death.
I have a degree in medical illustration from the Cleveland Institute of Art, which laid the groundwork for an artistic practice rooted in naturalism and technical accuracy. My academic background studying anatomical structures and systems has led to a lifelong love of learning about the many minute and hidden systems that make up our natural world. As a result, the subject matter of my art can vary as widely as the techniques I employ, but is always bound by a love of both the subject and the process.
