My story
b. 1984
I was a wild child, spending all my time outdoors. Unencumbered with checking in, cell phones, or social media pressures, I tramped through puddles, rode my bike, and generally enjoyed being outside as much as possible. Growing up, my grandmother taught me about identifying and growing plants. My father took our family on drives to parks and through the Blue Ridge Mountains. These memories continue to influence my artistic practice and deep love for the outdoors many years later.
I excelled academically during my school years but was encouraged to find work after high school. Taking a nontraditional path, I pursued administrative work for several years before I considered college. Finally, while living in North Carolina at age 27, I received my associate degree in fine arts Summa cum laude at Sandhills Community College in Southern Pines, NC. This was followed by studies at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, DC.
I now work out of my home studio in Baltimore, Maryland, where local landscapes, plant life, animals, and meaningful places shape my work. Still rooted in a love of the outdoors, my practice is informed by both my immediate surroundings, memories, and the places I travel.
About my work
There are moments when words fail—
when something is so visceral that language can only scratch the surface. Light dancing on water, the stillness before dusk, the way an animal meets your gaze. I notice these moments deeply, yet when I try to describe them, words often fall short. Painting is where that limitation dissolves. It allows me to express what I feel and experience beyond language.
In much of my daily life, I work within systems that depend on precision, language, and analysis. In the studio, I seek the opposite—something softer, nuanced, and beyond words. I think I’ve always known that my truest form of expression lives outside of intellect.
As a child, I was a keen student but also a feral dreamer,
spending nearly all my time outdoors: playing, biking, holding court with lizards, turtles, and frogs, and allowing myself to be amazed by the natural world. That sense of wonder, and the desire to share it, has never left me.
Today, my creative practice and love of nature overlap completely with my Jewish spirituality, particularly the concept of hakarat hatov—the practice of noticing and acknowledging the good (or, in other words: gratitude). In my work, gratitude functions not as doctrine, but as a way of seeing, which opens me up to noticing the beauty all around, whether wild and untamed, or quiet and still. Looking for the good, especially in small and ordinary moments, grounds me in the present and draws me back to what matters.
My paintings are representational and rooted in observation (meaning they are “of” something) but I’m not interested in realism for its own sake. I’m an expressive painter, using color, value, and playful mark-making as my visual language to translate the felt experience of a subject and to convey what words fail to. I work with acrylic paint (both artist-grade and house paint), oil paint, water-soluble media, pastel, and graphite, allowing structure and spontaneity to coexist.
Painting allows me to express what words cannot. It gives voice to noticing the good and allows me to point others to being present.
Ultimately, my work is an invitation: to slow down, to notice, and to reconnect with nature and the beauty that exists all around us when we allow ourselves to be present.
Notable Exhibtions
Lowe House of Delegates, Annapolis, MD
2025 & 2026
Various group exhibitions, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
2019-2026
Solo Exhibition, Hospice of the Chesapeake, Annapolis, MD
2025
Solo Exhibition, Belvedere Square Market, Baltimore, MD
2016