For most of my growing up years my mother was working on her Fine Arts degree. I started sketching and painting alongside her and never stopped. I’ve painted with oils and pastels but when we moved to the Pacific Northwest I transitioned to mostly watercolor. Its transparent flow seems to best express this wet and watery part of the world.

Moving here has taught me to slow down, to open my eyes and and take note of the wonder around me - the running ripple of the tide, the sea birds riding the waves, diving, bobbing up again, the sandpipers lifting off and swirling back to land. This is a wide and spacious place, full of aqueous beauty, and the more I take it in, the more it overflows as praise to God and paint on paper.