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 currently study.

My work is about the simplicity we ignore.  It is about the sensual, the mundane, and the complexity of a single moment - of touch, of gaze, of the space between.  It is about freeing oneself from the constraints of time and being fully absorbed in the moments where boundaries blur.  In my most personal work, I paint about memories, those that remain and those that fade.  I paint to hold on.