"I am drawn to the light within all of creation - a reflection of the One who placed it there."

My work is an act of reverence. Whether I’m painting the luminous depths of the sea, the nobility of a creature in the wild, or a woman gazing toward a destination not yet reached, I
am always pointing toward the same source — the God whose fingerprints are pressed into every beautiful thing.

My path to the canvas was not a straight one. From childhood, I was a creator — the girl for whom art was a joy and a language. Though I excelled at it, my parents steered me toward something more practical, convinced that art was not a valuable pursuit and certainly not a path to making a living. So I listened.

I became a registered nurse, and for decades I poured myself into caring for others — work that was genuinely fulfilling, and that taught me something essential about the human need for hope, beauty, and peace in the midst of life's challenges and moments of suffering. But, there was always something waiting.

When I retired and found myself standing in that quiet, disorienting space that we don’t talk about enough — the transition into retirement - asking “who am I now, and what am I for?”

For me, I remembered. I remembered the girl who stood in awe of every beautiful thing God set in front of her. I remembered that I am, at my core, a creator. And I gave myself permission, finally, to become the artist I was always meant to be.

Working in oil over mixed media from my studio in Gulf Breeze, Florida, I build my paintings in slow, translucent layers, coaxing light up from the canvas. The process itself feels like prayer —patient, attentive, and full of quiet expectation.

My subjects are varied — the ocean, wildlife, women in moments of looking towards promises to be fulfilled, the natural world alive with the supernatural. But, my vision is singular: to paint the world as a place charged with divine presence, where the natural and the eternal are never far apart.

After a career spent caring for the physical needs of others, I now offer something different — art that feeds the soul. I hope that when you stand before my work, you feel what I feel when I paint it — a deep, quiet assurance that you are seen, that goodness is
real, and that something glorious is always just ahead.”