ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a mother who is rediscovering her voice. I have been an artist since the day I was born, since the first set of soft pastels I enherited from my grandfather. I have been drawing week long realism portraits of nature since a child, always wanting for them to be perfect, so hyper-focused on each strand of hair and detail that I forgot about all the world around me. Art has given me every feeling back when my life got difficult, been my coping mechanism and given me my voice back when processing difficulties, and helped me through the isolating bits of special needs parenting. All that I do can be expressed on canvas, and all the emotions I've hidden from have come to that surface. I am grateful for this journey my son and I have come on, and the creative tools and gifts I have been given to have the strength to push through them. Art is my escape, and my focus is mood and capturing those moments of feelings and emotion on canvas.