I was born and grew up in Waynesboro, Virginia, a rural area of the central Shenandoah Valley.  At a young age I aspired to be an artist - wearing an artist's smock and carrying a palette to "career day" in first grade.

In 2006, I graduated from the College of William and Mary with a BA in Painting. At that point, I took a year off from my formal art education and worked as a conservation fine art framer, elementary art educator, and art administrator.  In 2007, my interest in pursuing further artistic stimulation and education led me to the MFA Painting program at the University of New Hampshire, where I graduated in 2009.

My current body of work is about a world of people who work to prevent each other from movement, self-awareness, and achievement.  No one is innocent.  Everyone in this world participates by facilitating and enabling others to create this entangled web.