About
I am a mixed media artist from Southern California.
Art was not my first profession, or even my second. As a lifestyle and career, it found me later in life and somewhat unexpectedly. I was in my forties before painting became a regular part of my daily practice.
That said, I am not a stranger to art. My Italian grandparents were both professional artists, a passion they passed on to their children and grandchildren. My mother is an artist and vocalist, and from an early age I was immersed in art, music, culture, and aesthetics.
For much of my life, music was my primary creative language. I sang as a classical soloist, in choirs, and later with jazz and big bands. Singing felt as natural as breathing. When illness eventually took my voice, I lost the medium through which I had always connected most deeply with others.
After raising three children and building a career in brand strategy, I returned to school to study anthropology (even though I craved to be in the art department) and eventually found my way into museum work. Around that same time, I inherited my grandfather's artist easel.
I set it up in my office and left it there.
For months, perhaps longer, it stood empty. Yet, it called to me.
Although I had attempted painting as a hobby several times throughout my life, a myriad of other life experiences always took precedence. But now I had the time, so I bought a few inexpensive paints, a notebook, and some brushes and began showing up to the easel each day.
What started as a haphazard inclination, became a strange kind of homecoming. Years of exposure, a deep and unyielding secret desire, and a lifetime of emotions and experience blossomed when the timing was right. Although an unexpected turn of events, artist is who I’ve always been.
Return to Quiet
My work explores the spaces we create to reconnect with ourselves beneath expectation, performance, and noise. Through painting, reflection, and observation, I return again and again to the same question: What remains when we let go of what no longer serves us?
Return to Quiet is not about silence. It is about remembering who we are beneath distraction. It is the thread that connects my work, my process, and the stories I choose to tell.
Artist Statement
I am, first and foremost, an intuitive painter. Though I work within constrained palettes, my process is loose, gestural, and deeply responsive. With every mark, I search for balance: tension and restraint, texture and stillness, boldness and repose. I want the work to feel familiar, but never formulaic.
My practice is rooted in inner work. Retreat, reflection, journaling, silence, and the continual process of returning to myself shape everything I create. I am interested in the sanctuary that exists beneath noise, expectation, performance, and distraction—the grounded stillness that lies beneath the surface of contemporary life.
That pursuit lives within the paintings.
I am deeply influenced by the environments we inhabit and the ways they shape our experience of ourselves. Just as thoughtful architecture can foster a sense of harmony, alignment, and belonging, art participates in the emotional life of a space.
My work gives form to a particular kind of quiet: a return to instinct, growth, and inner truth held deeply enough that it cannot be shaken by circumstance. There is intensity in that kind of calm.
The paintings are created with a deep sense of refuge in mind—places where beauty, contemplation, and restoration become possible. Through abstraction, material tension, and restrained palettes, I explore the belief that beauty can restore us to ourselves and that quiet is its own form of enlightenment.