Born in Seattle, I've been painting and drawing in various ways since I can remember. While studying literature and art at Oberlin College, Ohio, I also painted for a brief 6 months at L'Ecole Marchutz in Aix-en-Provence, France. I've had the good fortune to work in theatre costuming and wardrobe since. Animating the art are two desires: to illustrate myth- images that suggest dreams and stories from the collective stream of consciousness, and to keep an ambiguous familiarity with mortality, that mystifying and often terrifying essence of ourselves, where celebrating life and embracing the...more
