Lake House Collection

It wasn’t until my recent artist talk at the Ringling Museum that I really opened up to share about what my figurative inlays are about.

Starting in high school, I suffered from an eating disorder that was very close to putting me in the hospital if it wasn’t for my parents’ intervention.

Since then I had always made work about the body, whether it was a figurative painting or something more abstract. Probably as a way to grapple with the internal battle I was facing.

While it’s not something that I feel ever really heals all the way, my figures are much more celebratory of the meditative inner strength that got me out of the dark place I was in. It wasn’t the therapy or anything else anyone could have said to me—it was a journey I had to go on by myself.

More specifically about the Lake House Collection, the solace I had in the lake house during those tough years was very profound for me since I could get away from all of the noise and just become steeped in nature. Those quiet moments allowed for the kind of contemplative self-reflection I needed.

These pieces are all imbued with the feelings of meditative inner strength that I hope you can feel too!