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I am an Alabama native who is trying to see the world and calls Yellowstone National Park "home" in my heart. I am 44 years old and married to a lovely man named Jeff Meyer. I am a skier and a lover of all the creative arts. I received my BFA, as well as a BS in Art Education, from the University of Idaho in 2004.
I have taught English to public school children in Iquique, Chile and Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. I am currently living in Missoula, Montana, experiencing my surroundings and translating thoughts and feelings onto the painted canvas.
I have explored many areas of artistic expression, but my love is ultimately with the brush and canvas. Color and brushstroke are always important aspects of my work.
It is my desire to touch the world with my art, allowing the viewer a moment to take a step back from a complicated and sometimes frightening existence. Taking the time to slow down during the fast-forward pace of daily life to look and really see, one can unlock the moment, entering a realm of freedom.
"Artists show the way. To look is to feel free."
-Jed Perl from his "The Art of Seeing" in Drawing Us In: How We Experience Visual Art
This Freedom inevitably leads to enrichment and a broadening of one's own acquaintance with the world, as well as self-understanding.
"Of all the things that confront us in nature and history, it is the work of art that speaks to us most directly. It possesses a mysterious intimacy that grips our entire being, as if there were no distance at all and every encounter with it were an encounter with ourselves."
-Hans Georg Gadamer from his Philosophical Hermeneutics
My art is expression. My time as a human being and what has moved me. Those things I find impossible to articulate in words. The joy I find in creating with paint and brush. The connection I wish to forge with you.
It is an individual perspective in the collective that is Life.
I hope it makes you happy.
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