My upbringing was in the deep woods of San Juan Island and it was those ecosystems that raised me. As a child, I was always enamored by insects and plants and the strange structures that hang from trees and as I grew older and entered university all of the time I spent outdoors and creating as a child followed me through my courses.

I ended up creating my own interdisciplinary degree at Fairhaven College. I took ecology courses with field study, hands-on art studio courses, and creative writing classes that became the nexus between my environmental knowledge and art practice. All of this culminated and became a bachelors degree that I titled “Integrative Ecological Art.”

My work now relies on the alchemy of traditional art-making turning plants into pigment or into dye, turning bark into paper, and animal hide into glue. Organic shapes still continue to fascinate me, I love the complexity and intricacy and worlds that they can contain. Through my art, I hope to capture the essence of what it means to exist as a part of Earth’s ecology.