"It is more important to the artist to reproduce her emotional state in a distillation of the reality she had experienced than to record an actual situation with photographic precision."

Andrea Kettenmann
Frida Kahlo 1907-1954: Pain and Passion

I am an artist because I have always been driven to work with my hands - driven to create objects of art, utility, culinary delight or botanical beauty. I am happiest when I am creating and embellishing life.

My artwork is an exploration of themes in history, symbolism, music, dance, spirituality, feminism and self. Each piece becomes a fusion of what I feel, think, read and experience transformed into the tangible.

Body Series is a group of mixed media, abstract figures. The convex forms symbolize the embodiment of a current self, feeling or event awaiting the metamorphosis to another level. Concave symbolizes the remnants of a former self, feeling or event that has changed and moved on, leaving behind a shell of memories.

Coffer Series is a group of works that reflect the theme of container/containment in human lives. Humans collect and pack away their lives in boxes of one kind or another. Humans can be contained by their lives, their things. Each boxes tells a different story; some specific, others vague and dream-like.