I was born in Los Angeles but spent most of my childhood, growing up in Mazatlán, Mexico. In 2002, my family moved from Mazatlán to Nashville, Tennessee—a second culture shock in my eleven years that eclipsed the first relocation. My mother, a former professional jazz singer from New Orleans and my father, a former British Rock musician, raised me to look for Art in everything. As musicians, their mediums were music and lyrics. My mediums are brushes and oils.

All aspects of my creative practice reflect my key motivation, put into words by Symbolist poet, Stéphane Mallarmé: to capture “not the thing, but the effect it produces.”

The environments and principal forms in my work oblige viewers to feel voyeuristic. Many portraits feature nude figures, as their nakedness forces perspective, leading the viewer to perceive privacy. Motifs of solitude transform the viewer from observer to participant. Using allegorical imagery in scenes of Intimism, I conceptualize each story so that it is ambiguous enough to be widely relatable. Seeing ourselves in art can feel ingratiating or revealing. Recognizing ourselves in the ubiquitous or mythical preserves our mysteries.

David Hockney, "American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)", 1968.

Katherine Bradford, "Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas Collect My Work," 2022.

Rene Magritte, "La Belle Lurette," 1965.

Mark Rothko, "Blue, Green, and Brown," 1952.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, "Artisin (Marcella)," 1910.

Helen Frankenthaler, "Sea Goddess," 1963.

Andrew Wyeth, "Christina's World," 1948.

Norman Rockwell, "Girl at Mirror," 1954.

Marsden Hartley, "Handsome Drinks," 1916.