I attended Bennington College in Vermont where I studied Illustration and Visual Narrative, primarily concentrating on the relationship between word and image. After graduating in 2015, I worked at Bennington for three years as an admissions counselor, and then took a major pivot: knowing that higher education wasn’t the future I wanted and hoping to do something that employed my visual skills, I quit my job and moved to Denver.

Something was still missing for me though: I hadn’t found the connection to a creative community and pursuit that I’d been looking for, and I ultimately arrived back in my hometown of Philadelphia. During the early months of the pandemic when I was unable to work, I had the opportunity to re-imagine what life could look like. After building a couple of websites for artists and teaching myself how to use squarespace, I realized I had found something that allowed me to connect with artists and engage with my love for design and storytelling.

My paintings and drawings are rooted in images found in beloved books from my childhood, and some version of an imaginary world that was born out of the woods behind the house I grew up in. I do most of my painting on an island off the coast of Maine every summer. I often paint with watercolor or gouache and prefer a hot press paper. In addition to painting I also do ink drawings which can be seen throughout the site.