About
I make intimate portraits of immense imaginary spaces.
I use the metaphor of landscape to explore relationships with time and space outside of everyday experience. Every work of art is a landscape — capturing and recording internal or external experiences. Because our memories of time and place are more than visual pictures, I rarely use photographic references — preferring instead to allow my work to be intuitive and sense-memory based.
Born in Virginia and growing up along the mid-Atlantic, my family origins are in the rice fields of Cajun SW Louisiana. Now living in Portland, I use a variety of media to make both abstract and objective landscapes. Inspired by the vast flatness of the alluvial planes of Mississippi Delta, and by the enveloping intimacy of the Pacific Northwest forests and coastline, I work in encaustic, watercolor, cold wax, oils, acrylic, and printmaking.
I have a BFA in textile design from the School of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University, and worked for twenty years in nonprofit publishing as a designer and art director. After earning my MA in curriculum design from the University of Mississippi, I taught English in critical-needs schools in the Delta for six years before moving to Portland where I have a private studio among the fir trees, an orange dog, and a spotted cat.
Visit my SW Portland studio by appointment
Representation/exhibitionS
Gallery 408 Member artist (2024-Present) Camas, WA
Fiber Arts Invitational Guest artist (June 2025); Alberta Street Gallery, Portland OR
Portland Open Studios (October 2021, 2023, 2025) Annual juried art studio tour, sales and demonstrations
10X10X10XTIETON (August-October 2024) Juried exhibition sponsored by Tieton Arts & Humanities, Tieton, WA
It’s in the Details Group show (April 2024) at LK Gallery, Portland OR
12th Annual International Juried Exhibition Guest artist (February 2022) Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
Under the Bright Blue Vault of the Heavens: Remembering and the Mississippi Delta Featured artist (April 2021) at Sidestreet Arts, Portland OR
Spring and All: Textural Exploration of Abstract Landscapes Featured artist (May 2020) Curated collection with copper works by metalsmith Amy Ruedinger. Sidestreet Arts, Portland, OR
Art & Soul Gallery in Ashland, OR. (Represented artist)
The Sound and the Fury Featured artist (August/September 2019) Shepherd’s Dream, Ashland OR.
Into the Woods: Collaborations with Forests Featured artist (June 2019) Sidestreet Arts.Portland OR
Sidestreet Arts (Member Artist, Gallery Manager, Feature show curator, website development and design 2019-2021) Portland,OR
Heart of America Artists Association Participating artist (2019 - 2020) National juried exhibition commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Arkansas Territory, traveling to museums, galleries, and universities in Arkansas and Oklahoma
Hello Goodbye: Ghosts and Shadows Featured (2019) Karuna Contemplative Living Center for Meditation, Portland, OR
First Friday PDX different venues as part of Portland, OR Eastside Art Walk
Big 500 annual group show and benefit in Portland, OR
Little by Little annual group show and benefit in Milwaukie, OR
Wine:30 group show 2018, Milwaukie, OR
The Portland Bottle Shop “Love Portland” group showing 2018, 2019; “Previous Seasons” solo show 2018
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