About my practice

I am a mixed-media artist working out of my home studio in West Linn, OR. I create layers of texture, meaning, and color through a combination of painting, printmaking, and collage techniques. With each layer I hope to introduce the viewer to new ways of thinking about the image’s subject matter or even subvert their initial assumptions. I keep a constant eye out for ways to give new life to cast-off materials through my art to offset the environmentally-unfriendly effects of many traditional art media. In my work you’ll see vestiges of seed catalogs, sewing patterns, old books and magazines, maps, and my own discarded projects.

I use the moniker Texturous Studios when promoting my artwork online and at art festivals. The “studios,” such as they are, are technically a corner of my family room (and, occasionally, pockets of the garage), where I try to contain my mess du jour. On any given day, my work table might be occupied by my Ettan etching press, acrylic paints, toxic-smelling epoxies, my sewing machine, a haphazardly balanced laptop, and/or assorted scraps of paper, wood chips, and fabric.

I enjoy actively engaging with the artistic community both locally and online. I am an appointed member of the West Linn Arts and Culture Commission, volunteer weekly at the Portland Art Museum’s Rental Sales Gallery, and maintain the website for Print Day in May, a volunteer-run global printmaking event held the first Saturday in May every year.

Select exhibition history

  • Abundant Oregon: Artists Capture the Beauty and Ecology of Nature group show, Giustina Gallery (Corvallis, OR, Feb–March 2023)
  • Solo exhibit, West Linn Public Library Community Room (West Linn, OR, Feb 2023)
  • Solo exhibit, Beavercreek Health Clinic lobby (Oregon City, OR, December 2022–March 2023)
  • Art in Oregon Holiday Group Show, Mary Elizabeth Gallery at the Stevens-Crawford House (Oregon City, OR, December 2022)
  • Don’t Box Me In guest artist group show, Artistic Portland Gallery (Portland, OR, September 2022)
  • REemergence Artists Vision group show, Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts (Lake Oswego, OR, June 2022)
  • Solo exhibit, Clackamas County Development Services Building (Oregon City, OR, March–June 2022)
  • The Sustainable Feast: Art About Agriculture travelling group show (various locations in Oregon, May–September 2022)
  • Saved from the Landfill group show, Wilsonville Festival of the Arts (Wilsonville, OR, June 2022)
  • Buckman Art Show and Sell (Portland, OR, April 2022)
  • Abandoned: Images of What Remains group show, ARTspace Gallery (Lake Oswego, OR, September–October 2021)
  • Silverton Fine Arts Festival (Silverton, OR, August 2021)
  • Artists on Rotation ongoing exhibit, Ford Gallery (Portland, OR, January–October 2021)
  • The Inked Image Fine Arts Print Show, Sidestreet Arts (Portland, OR, January 2021)
  • Beaverton Arts Mix! Show and Sale (online, October 2020)
  • Buckman Art Show and Sell (Portland, OR, March 2020)
  • Marine Food Webs: Drifters to Swimmers group show, Giustina Gallery (Corvallis, OR, Feb–March 2020)
  • Fall Festival of the Arts (Troutdale, OR, September 2019)
  • Silverton Fine Arts Festival (Silverton, OR, August 2019)
  • Solo exhibit, Beavercreek Health Clinic (Oregon City, OR, June–December 2019)
  • Wild & Scenic Film Festival group art exhibit (Oregon City, OR, June 2019)
  • An Artistic Heritage group show at Lake Oswego Festival for the Arts (Lake Oswego, OR, June 2019)
  • ArtSplash (Tualatin, OR, July 2018)
  • Buckman Art Show and Sell (Portland, OR, March, 2018)

Education

I am always eager to learn new processes and techniques to expand my creative practice.

  • Shellac plate printmaking with Dawn Endean, Creative Arts Community at Menucha, Corbett, OR (summer 2022)
  • Print Camp with Robynn Smith, Santa Cruz, CA (summer 2022)
  • Monotype workshop with master printer Judith Baumann, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR (Spring 2019)
  • Printmaking coursework with Tatiana Simonova, Portland Community College, Portland, OR (Fall 2018–Spring 2019)
  • Community education summer intensive: Photogravure with master printer Paul Mullowney, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR (Summer 2018)
  • MS: Technical Communication, emphasis in Human-Computer Interaction, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (Fall 2003)
  • BA: Digital Fine Art, minor in Computer Science, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA (Fall 1999)
  • Summer animation intensive, New York Film Academy, New York, NY (Summer 1997)
  • Graphic design certificate, North County Regional Occupation Program, Cupertino, CA (1994)
  • Summer painting and drawing residency, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA (Summer 1993)