Themes:

a merging of the silly and the sincere

The "sincere" :  My serious paintings: Observation of nature, meditative/observational painting or responding to a space

The "silly" : Obsessions with snack food, cereal, macaroni and cheese, childhood celebrity crushes, embarrassing/funny nostalgia, my character "Ashley" and her ecstatic journaling business

Journalistic work:

Metaphor: Poetry & visual art

Color (inspired by josef albers and other colorists) and light  - painters I like - Charles Burchfield, Hilma Af Klint, Forest Bess, Contemporary- Katherine Bernhardt, Dana Schutz, Josephine Halvorson