I am a self-taught artist, designer, musician, miner, mineral collector, and passionate nature enthusiast with a deep love for plants and the natural world. With a degree in fashion design and merchandising, along with years of hands-on experience in graphic design, branding, and packaging, creativity has always been at the heart of everything I do.

Alongside my fine art, I work as a graphic designer, developing logos, brand identities, and print-ready packaging for small businesses and clients, work that lets me bring the same precision and care I put into a mineral portrait into building visual systems people can actually use.

As my artistic journey evolved, I deepened my exploration of realism, focusing on highly detailed mineral portraits using pastels, charcoal, pen, and paint. I've collaborated with mineral photographers, working from their reference photos, while also capturing my own collection to create and share. This has led to commissioned mineral portraits of collectors' most treasured specimens.

While minerals remain my primary artistic focus, I also love bringing imaginative worlds to life through my enchanted concept portraits, a passion project where I merge human and animal subjects with the beauty of nature, evoking a sense of magic and wonder.

Beyond my own artwork, I enjoy sharing my knowledge through teaching. I have taught charcoal drawing at North Seattle College and have recently launched online demonstrations and classes, making art education more accessible to a wider audience.

As long as I'm creating, growing, and tending something, whether it's a piece of art or a garden bed, I'm truly living. Thank you for being part of my journey.