I am a fine art painter who moved to Paris to study painting and drawing at Studio Escalier, an art school in Montmartre. In my studio in Montmartre, I make autobiographical paintings that use imagery of interior and exterior spaces, reflection, still life, and portraiture.
A Californian by birth, I attended Sarah Lawrence College in New York where I majored in art and literature. Though interested in art since childhood, it was while copying from Botticelli’s “La Primavera” at the Uffizi during a study abroad program in Florence Italy, that I became interested in figurative painting and drawing. After graduation, I worked as an artist and scenic painter in Portland Oregon. In Oregon I was awarded a yearlong fully funded painting residency from the Calligram Falcon foundation. I has since lived Oxford England and Paris France where I pursue my interest in drawing and painting from live models as well as from paintings and sculptures at the Louvre. Aside from my studio work, I also teach classical painting and drawing.