My passion as an artist comes from a life-long desire to create. Growing up with a parent in the military, I was consistently moving around from one place to the next, all the while collecting shapes, places and colors to put in my back pocket and one day use. I was always a painter but started to expand my idea of what could and couldn’t be used as art in highschool and continued until I finally found my material of choice while in college doing a project made of scrap textiles, including leather and other recycled materials. Years later, in 2018, I started my embarkment as an artist expiermenting with different mediums and textiles that slowly evolved into my primary use of leather today.

Currently, I live in Memphis, Tennessee and work in an in home studio over looking my backyard garden. When I’m not in the studio, I am often found enjoying local parks, taking nature walks led my little one, Arrison. Inspired by the landscapes I grew up seeeing and my travels, I soak in my surroundings and then illustrate them in my own way through collages. I am always mesmerized with the way the calming colors and soft layered textures of my pieces can speak to others without using words. A little leather on a wooden panel creates a shared experience between you, the viewer, and me, the artist. This connection brings me such joy and compels me to create the way I see the world: full of color and unsuspecting textures.