Artist Statement

"...tracks in clay, a spray of feathers, mouse blood and bone: uncollected, unconnected, loose-leaf, and blown."
- Annie Dillard

I have always been a collector. Growing up in rural North Carolina, I kept many books full of seasonal leaf collections, boxes of feathers, interesting stones, animal bones, plants, pods, various clumps of moss, and other found ephemera. In a way, I've continued that tradition today in my multi-media sculptures, paintings, and in my line of resin jewelry.

Each of these creations are hand-made with love and are inspired by the beauty and mystery of the natural world and all of its found things, lost things, fragile things and imperfectly beautiful things. Many of these newest works have been increasingly influenced by living in the Northwest and all of it's foggy, blue-grey mysteries...