ABOUT ME

I consider my illustrations and paintings to be spontaneous synesthetic play: always unplanned, always freehand, only using whatever materials are around.

 

I manifest emotions and sensory experiences on paper and canvas, often to music as my synesthesia intertwines sounds, colors, movements, and emotions - and relying on material constraints as a way to provide novel structural parameters.​

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There's a graying, fraying towel? I am suddenly enraptured by the texture of the fuzzy nubs and they must be used immediately, somehow.
 

The lights went out during a storm in a strange country? Let's try watercolors for the first time in 20 years using a child's travel paint kit, by the flickers of candlelight. 

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Stuck in days-long, stressful corporate meetings? I'm a vocal participant yet also -- quietly, calmly -- amassing piles of post-its with deeply drawn jagged strokes, spiraling vortexes, tiny teeth, dripping sharp edges, heavily bandaged creatures.  

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Creating is my meditation, an unmediated processing of what I'm feeling with all my senses full blown; of being truly, wholly present; a rare state with my ADHD brain in the world today.

I crave this feeling of pure, focused play.