Artist Statement

My work explores remembrance, transformation, and the symbolic language we use to make meaning of our lives.

Working primarily in mixed media, I create layered artworks that combine painting, printmaking, drawing, collage, hand-carved stamps, and found textures. The process is intentionally additive. Marks are built, obscured, rediscovered, and woven together over time, much like memory itself. Each layer carries traces of what came before, creating a visual record of exploration, revision, and becoming.

Recurring symbols appear throughout my work, including moons, stars, pathways, eyes, wings, botanical forms, maps, doorways, and celestial imagery. Many of these motifs have followed me since childhood, reappearing across decades of sketchbooks, paintings, and personal journals. Over time I have come to understand them as elements of a personal visual language, one that allows me to investigate themes of identity, intuition, connection, and transformation.

My influences draw from mythology, folklore, nature, sacred spaces, Southern Gothic storytelling, women's lived experiences, and the cyclical patterns found throughout the natural world. I am interested in the ways symbols transcend language and how a simple image can carry emotional, psychological, and spiritual meaning across cultures and generations. I often think of symbols as containers for memory, capable of holding stories that are difficult to express through words alone.

The title Path of the Spiritweaver reflects both my artistic practice and my worldview. To me, a Spiritweaver is someone who gathers fragments of experience, memory, loss, wonder, and hope, then weaves them into something meaningful. Art becomes a way of tracing the invisible threads that connect our inner lives to the larger world around us.

Many of my works emerge from periods of personal reflection, transition, or growth. Rather than documenting specific events, I seek to create images that remain open enough for viewers to find their own stories within them. The artwork becomes a meeting place between my experience and theirs. A symbol that begins in one life may find its deepest meaning in another.

Materiality is central to this process. I am drawn to surfaces that reveal evidence of touch, history, and accumulation. Hand-carved stamps, layered papers, repeated marks, stitched elements, and textured impressions allow each piece to carry a sense of time and presence. These physical traces mirror the emotional and symbolic layers that shape our identities.

Ultimately, I create artwork as an act of remembrance.

Not remembrance in the nostalgic sense, but in the deeper sense of reconnecting with parts of ourselves that have been forgotten, neglected, or hidden beneath the demands of daily life. I am interested in the moments when people recognize something familiar in an image without fully understanding why. Those moments of pause, reflection, and recognition often become the beginning of a conversation between the artwork and the viewer.

My hope is that the work offers more than visual engagement. I hope it creates space for contemplation, curiosity, and connection. If a piece allows someone to feel more rooted in their own story, more aware of their own transformation, or more connected to who they are becoming, then it has fulfilled its purpose.

Each work is an invitation to remember.

A reminder that our lives are shaped not only by where we have been, but by the stories we choose to carry forward.