ABSTRACT ART THAT CELEBRATES OUR WORLD’S PEAKS AND NATURAL LANDSCAPES.

DESIGN

Painting a place you have been is always nostalgic and special, but there is also a certain magic in creating a painting of a place that you have never been but holds a special significance for someone else. A painting has the power to serve as a tangible reminder of the felt sense of that place, allowing the viewer to relive that place and space-time and time again.

STORY

My grandmother was a watercolor artist. She painted beautiful ethereal landscapes and buildings that had a magical and nostalgic effect. She taught me to knit when I was in first grade, to quilt in third, and how to paint watercolor daffodils when I was ten. She gave me notebooks and notebooks of beautiful watercolor paper that I filled immediately with painted song lyrics, trees, shells, and daffodils. She sparked a passion for me so early that has stayed with me my entire life. I took every art class I could growing up and even earned a minor in studio art at Harvard University.

I’ve always been an artist but I never thought of myself as one until I made my first portal for a friend. It was the moment when I saw that I had created something that really touched someone in a meaningful way. I had suffered a traumatic brain injury and had lost all of my ways of resourcing. I was living on Kauai without many belongings and decided it was time to bite the bullet and get another set of watercolor supplies even though I had cases of materials at home in Boulder, Colorado.

Over the next year, I created almost a hundred paintings for friends and family and found my style and offering for the world. I enjoy continuing to expand on this mountain theme into new materials and techniques, including the new addition of laser cutting and sculpture.