About

I am a self-taught contemporary textile artist, also employed as an autism research coordinator in a neuroscience lab. I sew abstracted fabric landscapes, employing both traditional and modern improvisational quilting techniques. My work appears both two- and three-dimensional, inhabiting the intersection between craft and fine art. My art practice stems from a deep reverence for natural spaces and human connection.

In creating the work, I contemplate themes of human-nature stewardship across varied geographies – inner and external, real and imagined. My scientific interest in social cognition is driven by a desire to understand the human experience: how we experience joy, fear, and loss; how we heal; our perceptions of different realities; and what connection means to each of us. In my art practice, I seek to offer the viewer a space in which to connect authentically to their sensory and emotional experience. My abstracted landscapes call on viewers’ imaginations to fill in geographic details, while resonating with latent tactile memories of textiles and other domestic objects.

I began my first quilting project over a decade ago, with guidance from my aunt who taught me the process of making a bed quilt using the log cabin pattern. In the years following, with more ideas and inspiration than I could fit into my free time, I began making miniature framed quilts as gifts. Inspired by the beautiful scenery of New England and northern New York State, my work took a turn from craft to fine art, as I began to represent the simple beauty of rolling hills and water using the saturated colors and rich textures that fabric provides.

Please contact me directly to inquire about current inventory beyond my webshop, commission work, and to learn more about pricing structures. Custom work and commissions are available on a limited basis. Artwork sales are final and cannot be returned.