Artist Statement:

In the quiet depths of a northern seaside town, my paintings return again and again to a single river near my home in Maine. It is along its banks that I have learned to listen. When I feel unmoored, I return to its tidal rhythms and the shelter along the river’s edge. I am drawn to its quiet strength and persistent fragility, to the way it endures even as it changes.

My work explores the relationships between memory, place, impermanence, and the natural world. Rooted in sustained observation and personal experience, my practice moves between painting, print-based processes, and material experimentation. I create work that unfolds as echoes: faint records of what the land offers and then withdraws.

Working across silk, cotton, paper, and natural materials gathered from the river, I embrace process as a collaboration with the natural world itself. Wind, water, light, and time become active participants in the work, allowing unpredictability and change to shape the final image. Walking, collecting, and repeated returns to the same locations are central to my practice, helping me explore endurance, fragility, and the ways landscape can hold memory. Making becomes a shared act in which the river leaves its own trace and my control deliberately loosens. In this exchange, impermanence is not resisted but honored, and the fragile beauty of change is embraced.