I am an artist based in the Pacific Northwest, drawn to body and land as sites of stillness, embodiment, and emotional resonance — spaces where attention slows and presence deepens.

Rooted in an early devotion to figure drawing, I have long understood the human body as a terrain shaped by gravity, memory, and lived experience. Hills, valleys, horizons, and weather exist not only in the land, but in the body itself. In recent years, I have returned to this foundational practice through regular figure drawing, engaging it as a sacred and communal space for exploration, play, and honoring the human form as something endlessly complex and shared.

Landscape has entered my work more explicitly as an expansion of scale rather than a departure from the figure. Through painting, I engage the land as both sanctuary and mystery, allowing atmosphere, restraint, and duration to guide the work. The lessons of landscape — ground, breath, patience, and quiet — now inform my figurative paintings as well, where the body becomes another site of attentive presence.

Across my work, I am drawn to thresholds: between rest and emergence, protection and openness, inwardness and visibility. I am interested in how time lives within form, and how continuity can be felt rather than explained.

I live and work on beautiful Fir Island in the Skagit Valley, Washington, surrounded by expansive farm fields and big sky.