Little artist background
Born and raised ocala native, bartender at Mutiny, mom of two.  

Who or what first inspired you to create?

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to create. I think as a child and onward, my inner world has always been so vibrant and bizarre and wacky, and I have felt the pull to bring that through the veil into some sort of form to experience on the outside. As a teenager, art was a method to deconstruct the things around me that I couldn’t make sense of, in an effort to expel some pretty immovable things I was experiencing in my head. Now, it’s sort of the same, but less in the way of expulsion. Hard to expel from an endless source.

What other art forms influence your work (film, literature, music)?

My first art form was always writing; the illustration came as a timid appendage. I have a Bachelor’s in English Literature and have spent most of my life stumbling through the world holding onto prose like a talisman. Nothing has moved me like the spell of literature, but music is a close second and a primal conductor for me. 

Who or what is your greatest muse?

Motherhood, nature, the dance of the human experience!

Are there recurring themes in your work?

Lately I’ve been really diving into symmetry, repetition, patterns, and how they evoke something divine and sort of unsettling. Nature’s terrifying mandala, like a gruesome and beautiful tableaux. The Tibetan Book of the Dead talks about how, in transition through afterlife, you experience ten thousand horrible visions and ten thousand beautiful visions. Goddesses, monsters, bright lights and colors and dancing and suffering. Sort of a lot of that.