Artist Statement

My work explores relationships—between body and earth, memory and place, motion and stillness. I am drawn to the spaces where one thing becomes another: where land meets ocean, where cloudlines echo coastlines, where personal memory folds into the larger rhythms of the natural world.

Coastal waterways and maps recur throughout my work as both image and metaphor. The contour of the shoreline— reshaped by tide, weather, and time—mirrors the shifting outlines of clouds overhead. Even in moments of stillness, the surface of water remains in motion, shaped by forces beyond immediate sight. One changes slowly, almost imperceptibly; the other transforms in moments. Together, they reflect the dual tempos that shape our lives: the steady passage of time alongside sudden, fleeting change.

The moon has been a quiet but enduring presence in my work for more than thirty years, since leaving my home in a small town on the midcoast of Maine and beginning my own practice of artmaking. Its influence on the coast—its steady pull on tides and shorelines—first shaped how I understood landscape as a living, responsive body. Over time, that same lunar rhythm became a lens through which I consider the ebb and flow of human experience. Both of my daughters were born on full moons. I remember driving to the hospital each time, pausing to look up at the night sky, struck by the moon’s strength and inevitability. Those moments now carry even greater significance, lingering as a kind of emotional geography—fixed, luminous points within an ever-shifting landscape of memory.

I am interested in how memory itself takes shape. Like stones along the coast, memories are formed through movement—smoothed, altered, and sometimes fractured by repetition and return. With each ebb and flow, something is worn away, and something else revealed. Nostalgia, for me, works similarly - it’s not static; it drifts in and out, reshaping itself over time.

Through mapping, repetition, and organic forms, my work traces these layered relationships—between the personal and the elemental, the intimate and the expansive—inviting reflection on how we are shaped by the forces that move through us, often unseen, yet profoundly felt.