Art has always called me, but it’s taken a good amount of years to call myself an artist. I have a passion for bridging ideas and nudging the boundaries of my own comfort, and hopefully yours as well. My preferred media are collage, linocut printing, and watercolor and ink. I love how architectural collage feels: finding scaffolding in old magazines, pairing colors and patterns, mixing beauty and the grotesque and wondering where one begins and the other ends.
Linocut is a meditation, balancing the mindless zone of handiwork with the mindful clarity not to impale myself with sharp objects. It rewards patience and thoroughness in the inking process, and demands of your body in conjunction with your creativity.
And watercolor ebbs and flows, follows my suggestions (usually), and thirsts for iterations, layering, and depth. It’s gorgeous on its own, but bringing the starkness of ink into the frame grounds the ethereal into something almost tangible, partial outlines of our attempts to tame the untamable.
For now, I’m keeping most of my art offline. I’ll be putting my energy into art markets, but sign up for my mailing list to keep up with what markets I’ll be attending, and I have a few prints up on my Etsy shop if you’re outside of Austin. Plus I have a few art tiers on my Patreon page!