My recent work explores place, memory, and belonging. While jewelry remains an important part of my studio practice, my collage paintings have become a way of exploring landscapes that are remembered, imagined, inherited, or deeply loved. I hope to create something that carries the feeling of a place -- the stories embedded in it, and the history that shapes the landscapes we inhabit.

I have been making jewelry since 2009 and continue to enjoy working with Czech glass, freshwater pearls, alcohol inks, and hand-painted papers. My interest has always been in color, texture, and the quiet pleasure of making by hand. More recently I have expanded into collage and acrylic painting, working in the space between representation and abstraction. I enjoy building images from my own hand-painted and printed papers, allowing landscapes and stories to emerge gradually through layers of color and texture.

History often finds its way into my work. Tiny fragments of nineteenth-century letters, diary entries, maps, photographs, or other meaningful papers may disappear beneath later layers, becoming part of the painting's history even if they are no longer visible. These hidden elements suggest that every place carries the lives and memories of those who came before us.

Living in Vermont full-time has deepened this exploration. I call it my "home for the heart," and many of my recent paintings are inspired by its hills, fields, forests, and villages. Rather than painting specific views, I hope to capture something of the experience of being here—the quiet, the light and the sense of history.

I hope my work invites viewers not simply to look at it but to step into it--to enter a landscape layered with memory and possibility, and to pause, wander and remember.