I was born ages ago into the traveling circus of military life, and have been fortunate enough to have seen a decent chunk of the world as a result. At a young age, I developed a sort of Darwinian added appendage, as my sketchbook rarely left my hands.  People who didn’t take the time to get to know me simply called me “that girl that draws.”

A few years out of college, I decided to join the US Army, where I met my husband, Matthew.  I happily served 4 years in Hawaii as a Photolithographer, leading a prepress topographic mapping team. While there, I became the resident unit expert on Adobe Photoshop, and instructed senior officers, MOS instructors, and enlisted personnel on the process of digital manipulation, 4-color process printing and color separations.  I now travel all over the world with my husband (who is still in the military), our brand new daughter Myla, and our hairy children, Scout (a boxer) and Adie (a Boston Terrier).

I work primarily in ballpoint pen and acrylics.  I am immensely encouraged by my husband’s creativity and inspired by the works of Eric White, Maurice Sendak, Roberto Parada, Mark Ryden, Kari Barba, CF Payne, Robert Crumb, Kat Von D, Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Henson, and Shepard Fairey, to name a few.  I sometimes suffer from creative dry spells after spending too much time admiring their work.