Art has always called me, but it’s taken a good amount of years to call myself an artist. I have a passion for bridging ideas and nudging the boundaries of my own comfort, and hopefully yours as well. My preferred media are collage, linocut printing, and watercolor and ink. I love how architectural collage feels: finding scaffolding in old magazines, pairing colors and patterns, mixing beauty and the grotesque and wondering where one begins and the other ends.
Linocut is a meditation, balancing the mindless zone of handiwork with the mindful clarity not to impale myself with sharp objects. It rewards patience and thoroughness in the inking process, and demands of your body in conjunction with your creativity.
And watercolor ebbs and flows, follows my suggestions (usually), and thirsts for iterations, layering, and depth. It’s gorgeous on its own, but bringing the starkness of ink into the frame grounds the ethereal into something almost tangible, partial outlines of our attempts to tame the untamable.
Find more of my work at art markets around Austin! Sign up for my monthly newsletter to keep up with what markets I’ll be attending, and I have a few prints up on my Etsy shop if you’re outside of Austin. Or sign up for my Snail Mail club on my Patreon to get art and other goodies delivered to your mailbox every other month!
Coat of Arms
11x11-inch linocut print, signed and numbered. Open edition.
Prints available at my Etsy Shop.
Unseen Mechanisms
A surreal collage of a bicycle, representing the labor that often goes unseen when holding things together. This collage was inspired by a dream, and that same dream-like state is reflected in the art piece. The pop of the red gloves captures your attention, and the hands and arms direct you to explore the parts of the bicycle and ponder on how its mechanisms work in this world of dreams.
Prints available at my Etsy Shop.
