I am a landscape painter, and my work reflects a decade of exploring the rocky landscapes of Colorado and eastern Utah. An avid rock climber, I paint places where I climb.. From the sandstone cliffs of Bears Ears National Monument to the deep abyss of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, my paintings exist in an ongoing dialogue of the importance of conserving wild places.  

I grew up in New York City; but it was my summers in Bar Harbor, Maine, that led me to love wild open and undeveloped landscapes. I attended Oberlin College in Ohio, where I studied studio art and environmental studies. Upon graduating, I moved  to California and then to western Colorado, during which I pursued opportunities as an environmental educator for youth, as well as artist-in-residence stays in northern California and Zion National Park. 

I strive to make paintings that are about more than the aesthetic beauty of a landscape. Painting can be a way to draw attention to a place or a subject, calling it out as significant in more than one way. One of my recent series uses images from various wildfires throughout Colorado and blows them up into large-scale paintings, abstracting images of smoke plumes and fiery skies. Paintings do not exist in a vacuum; but rather, can occupy a space where landscape beauty can come into dialogue with ever-present environmental issues today.