Welcome

As an artist, I’m obsessed with making work that speaks to the mystery of life.

I lament that since the Enlightenment, art in Western culture has lost the two most important jobs it held for thousands of years—being a means to connect to the divine or a way to make magic. So I strive to create art objects that connect the viewer to what I perceive as primal and universal in the human experience, even if it’s through the lens of my particular perspective.

I am also deeply interested in exploring the tension between timelessness and impermanence, fragility and resilience, and the physical body and the spiritual self-I find this tension extremely poignant and I like to explore these themes by developing different bodies of work using a variety of media.

Esthetically, I’m inspired by the bold totemism and emotional immediacy of tribal, folk, and outsider art and by the flat, filled picture plane of medieval art and Indian miniature paintings. I believe these artistic traditions focus on the elemental aspects of existence and are powerful reminders of how art can serve as a vehicle to the sacred. This kind of work is my North Star..

I’m also a writer and I have a weekly newsletter on Substack called The Pink Teacup. I write about art & spirit, what it means to be fully expressed, and how our imaginations can help save the world.

I live and create in Taos, New Mexico with my husband and the spirits of our late cat, Kitty Girl Johnson, and our late Pit Bull, Lucy Loo the Pitty Boo. I miss them both terribly because they were perfect in every way.

Below is a short video of my front studio and a few more of my life here in Taos.

I’m so glad you’re here.