2026 Tired Angels
20” x 16” Oil Paint on linen panel. A series of portraits of exhausted angels, suggesting that when strength fades, support remains and hope continues.
2025
Tired Angels Studies: 20” x 16” Aquarelle Crayon, Wax Pastel, and Oil Paint on linen panel. Sepia drawing sketches.
2025 shared humanity
20” x 16” Oil, colored pencil, and oil/wax crayon on linen panel. The paintings chronicle people who carve out lives on their own terms, often at odds with the world around them. She is drawn to their vulnerability and defiance, especially now, as the political climate becomes increasingly hostile to difference. She uses the light from her Love/Fear neon sign to cast what she hopes is both tenderness and unease across the work, mirroring the fragile balance between freedom and fear, love and resistance.
The only way out is through
Robert Frost
A series of 20” x 16” Oil on linen portraits featuring images of children and young adults as a fictional representation and tribute to abuse survivors, honoring their struggle in dealing with the mental aftermath and their courage to move forward and have the strength to engage in a constant process of mental revision.
“ Color is the very essence of childhood imagination,” Walter Benjamin. Inspired by this quote, she painted the faces without color, because children of abuse have been robbed of their childhood imagination.
Note: By adding a glow-in-the-dark halo, she restores the survivor to innocence.. All of the eyes are the artist’s own.
2025 various
20” x 16” Oil, colored pencil, and oil/wax crayon on linen. Fragments from a time when the future felt boundless, before the political weight of 2025 began to press upon the edges of our freedom—when politics slowly seeped into the quiet corners of ordinary happiness, altering the light itself.
2008-2023 Experimenting
When the pandemic hit in 2020, I used the unexpected downtime to focus on a long-held goal: teaching myself to oil paint and building a daily studio routine
