I am drawn to pattern, color, and the ways things connect—across land, memory, and relationship.
My work moves between painting, photography, and narrative, often beginning with attention: to what is shifting, what is held, and what is just out of reach.
I’ve been paying attention in a deep, relational way for a long time.
I am interested in what art can hold in this moment—
beauty, contradiction, complicity, repair.
Nearly 25 years ago, my husband Sam and I braided our work, family and dreams together. What each of us brought to our marriage from our separate lives enhanced our impact in the world. Sam, in his career cleaning hazardous waste sites, is part of healing the planet and me, in my career working with learners and their families, am part of healing communities. Together, in Chicago and in our Central Illinois farm, we work to create a bit of justice in the world by practicing regenerative agriculture at our farm and in the relationships we cultivate as well as creating change over time and in the turning of seasons.
And…in this current season of our lives we are watching our daughters grow, change and make their own creative impact on the worlds they each have cultivated. It is something awesome to witness and to be part of. They are amazing humans who gift us with their joy, humor, vulnerability, honesty, frustrations and agency and more. We are honored to be in continuous growing relationship with them…and with our next generation as grandparents.
All of the work that I bring to this site is inspired by the love and support from my family—both given and chosen.
