I’ve always viewed my artwork as small extensions of myself, each piece housing an emotional complexity that seeks to touch the viewer the same way it has affected me. I love the concept of creating something out of nothing, as I constantly seek the physical limits of the materials I am working with in order to find something new. When words fail, a single stroke can speak volumes. Nothing in my artwork is arbitrary; each line has a meaning, each mark a purpose. I believe it is important to find a simple beauty in the most basic things. Something dark or raw can be just as beautiful as something refined and polished. While I do have a definitive style, I think it is because of this outlook that my artistic range is so broad.
Although I’ve been immersed in art for most of my life, I feel that my individual creative experience did not begin until my senior year of high school. Ultimately, my portfolio was the first time I had ever created personal pieces of artwork and through a seemingly impossible six month journey, I began to find myself. For the first time in my life, I was releasing inhibitions and creating pieces with what I believe to be an organic, untaught aesthetic. During this self-defining process, I sought inspiration from several incredible individuals, not only as artists, but as educators and as human beings. It is in part because of their unconditional love that it became my intention to study and excel in the field of art education.
Until college, I did not have much formal art experience, but I loved sharing whatever I did know. Whether it’s breaking a picture down into simple shapes for a child, or giving a friend artistic advice, the reward is always the same. Hitting something in my own artwork spot-on is just as thrilling as watching someone else finally understand something they could not before. I am an artist because I cannot imagine myself as anything else. I am educator because I can imagine everyone else as an artist. If I can teach someone how to find the beauty in not only their own work, but in their everyday lives, I will feel as though I have given back to those that have inspired and believed in me.
My objective is simple: make life beautiful.
Although I’ve been immersed in art for most of my life, I feel that my individual creative experience did not begin until my senior year of high school. Ultimately, my portfolio was the first time I had ever created personal pieces of artwork and through a seemingly impossible six month journey, I began to find myself. For the first time in my life, I was releasing inhibitions and creating pieces with what I believe to be an organic, untaught aesthetic. During this self-defining process, I sought inspiration from several incredible individuals, not only as artists, but as educators and as human beings. It is in part because of their unconditional love that it became my intention to study and excel in the field of art education.
Until college, I did not have much formal art experience, but I loved sharing whatever I did know. Whether it’s breaking a picture down into simple shapes for a child, or giving a friend artistic advice, the reward is always the same. Hitting something in my own artwork spot-on is just as thrilling as watching someone else finally understand something they could not before. I am an artist because I cannot imagine myself as anything else. I am educator because I can imagine everyone else as an artist. If I can teach someone how to find the beauty in not only their own work, but in their everyday lives, I will feel as though I have given back to those that have inspired and believed in me.
My objective is simple: make life beautiful.