Born at an early age and raised in New Hampshire, I graduated university with my Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Design. Upon graduation, I packed up my covered wagon and headed out to Texas to become a cowgirl/starving artist.
After spending time best forgotton in Dallas, I settled on a lovely area in Austin and shared my apartment with a native family of Palmetto Bugs (read: Giant Cockroaches) who, thankfully, scattered when I turned on the lights – so I had the lights on. A lot. Even when I slept. The power company loved me and to this day still sends holiday cards.
After suffering through blistering heat, flash floods, softball sized hail, being chased up an interstate by a tornado and most disturbingly, chased out of a bar with a large and menacing looking cattle prod, I got the hell outta Dodge and headed back to the green lushness of New Hampshire where I still reside in a condominium surrounded maple trees and kamikaze squirrels.
Before working for years in the advertising agency world – I got my designer toes wet working in the printing industry and gained valuable pre-press and customer service experience that has helped me build my career successfully as a designer.
In 2007, I picked up my camera and started creating modern and creative portraits, street/urban photography and landscape photos. Some of my urban and landscape photos were picked up and published in multiple special editions of Time Life Magazine.
Communicating is crucial, yet a constant struggle for me. I possess a reflective view of the world and my place in it and my art focuses on deconstructing that view. I aim to capture the details that are often overlooked. In my landscape work, I utilize color, contrast, and texture in order to create a mood or atmosphere incongruous to otherwise familiar places and objects. In my portrait work, I aim to unveil the hidden essence of a person – parts of the persona that often lie just below the surface.
By challenging the conventional methods of photography, pushing post processing and incorporating graphic design, I seek to inspire an emotional connection and tell an engaging story by transforming simple moments into scenes that seduce a viewer and draw them in deeper.
My main interest is photographing people, but I definitely enjoy mucking around in the woods, scampering through graveyards and exploring abandoned buildings (when i can find them – there is something emotional about the neglect and decay). I have also, for the most part, gotten past worrying about people looking at me funny when I decide the best angle for a photo is lying down on the ground – be it road, rock, grass or sidewalk.
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