Artist Statement

My longtime home is in the high desert of New Mexico. The dramatic horizon of this landscape, pink mountains, and ever-changing skies become a stage for surreal narratives. In my paintings, I combine living, extinct, and/or imagined fauna and flora with humans to create whimsical and haunting hybrid creatures. They gaze at the viewer and one another from within their abstracted worlds, as if to challenge reality, nature, and perception. 

In my practice, I seek the nonlinear, mysterious place of dreams where the conscious mind is not in charge. Each piece is meant to provide an open-ended story with which viewers can connect in their own personal ways. The juxtaposition of paint and collage in my work gives a sense of altered vision, inviting a shift in consciousness. Ever-present in my paintings are the dualities of familiarity and otherworldliness, interior and exterior, domesticity and freedom, sky and earth, real and imagined.