My work is primarily figural in nature.  I use portraiture and scenes taken from my daily life and travels to create a visual history of my own experiences as a woman from the Midwest in the United States. I am influenced by contemporary art and also artists from the past such as Toulouse Lautrec, Henry Matisse, and Kathe Kollwitz and how they use their own unique styles and interests to create works that depict their experiences. These might be highly based in aesthetics such as with Matisse, an intimate and unseen part of society like in the work of Lautrec, or emotional and political as in the case of Kollwitz’s works. My work is meant to aesthetically document life in the 21st century with all of the good and bad. This may be an every day bar scene in the Midwest, a self portrait in my living room, or intentionally or unintentionally creating a record of the modern day issues we deal with such as increasing social isolation, pandemics, war, and immigration.

In my practice I work with different printmaking techniques such as aquatint etching, monotype, and relief printing.  Each type of method can be used to achieve different moods and aesthetics. Color has increasingly become an important part of my work as I continue to cultivate my own unique palette . In all of my work, I aim to convey the beauty of humanity and the joys and horrors of life.