An Artist’s Self Portrait

The past year has been an especially difficult year with my health. I went from sketching every day to hardly anything for months! I sacrificed my time with my passion as an artist, to focus on picking up my ‘broken pieces’ and stitching myself back together. I’m still under repair and may always be in this process – BUT, I am thrilled to have this breakthrough of mental clarity; to have found more TIME to create! As a gift to myself and a symbol of rediscovering a part of a ‘happy me’ I painted and sketched these self portraits 🙂

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About the Artist

I’m an artist, author, and poet. My work is often shaped by lived experiences and by paying close attention to the world around me… nature, and the people who have helped shape my life.

I usually paint first, and the words come later. Painting has been the safest way I’ve found to be honest about things that are hard to say out loud, and over time I’ve noticed other people finding their own stories in the work too.

My paintings are meant to comfort, to feel like a presence rather than a statement, and to give space for each person to find their own meaning. The connection that happens there matters most to me.