Painting is a way I process and reconcile the demands of being an artist and a mother. My work arises from these tensions. I paint on many different canvases, which offers me a variety of surfaces to work on. I am attracted to the smooth texture and surface of claybord panels as a place to work through emotions that are difficult to articulate. My acrylic abstractions are visual journals, record keepers that have become maps of my personal history and a reflection on my truth as a woman, a mother, and an artist.
As I paint these intricate patterns, immersing myself in their geometric designs, their symmetry, and the repetition of the mark-making, I am calmed by the quiet of the brush work and the beauty that arises on these canvasses. In this process, I make peace with these tensions. I bring beauty to something forgotten, and I give new life to these objects and to the canvasses they have become.