The Hiding Place, 2025
The Hiding Place explores the inner sanctuaries we create to survive the storms of life—hidden spaces where the self can rest, reflect, and stay intact.
The series began with a reflection on the hiding places I created as a child. Places where I felt safe, even when I wasn't.
Through layered color, texture, and abstraction, these paintings consider the interior life as a place of refuge—a sanctuary shaped by memory, resilience, and the quiet strength we carry within us.
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Original acrylic on paper, 2026
Image size: 6 × 6 inches
Professionally matted with an archival white mat to 11 × 14 inches.
Sold unframed.
Signed by the artist and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
About the Work
I remember a cheap brown striped fold-out couch my parents bought for family visiting from out of town. It offered an uncomfortable night’s sleep on a metal bar disguised as a mattress. Back then, cheap and uncomfortable were acceptable.
I used to sit behind it while my mom read the classics to my siblings and me. We all cried when Beth died in Little Women. I remember it as if it were yesterday.
Sometimes I’d peek around the side or lift my head over the top, just enough to stay connected to what was happening on the other side.
There’s something freeing about being hidden.
You hear instead of see. You feel instead of notice. You get to exist without being available.
Periscope is part of The Hiding Place series, which explores the inner sanctuaries we create to survive the storms of life—hidden spaces where the self can rest, reflect, and remain intact. Through layered texture, color, and abstraction, these works become quiet places to retreat and exhale.
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Original acrylic on paper, 2026
Image size: 6 × 6 inches
Professionally matted with an archival white mat to 11 × 14 inches.
Sold unframed.
Signed by the artist and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
About the Work
When I was a little girl, we spent a lot of time in the forest. My sister would build fairy houses while I searched for fairy rings. It remains one of my fondest memories.
Wonder is often treated as childish, yet it may be one of the most necessary forms of resilience we possess. Whimsy softens rigidity. Imagination interrupts despair. The ability to remain open to mystery—to beauty, possibility, and enchantment—is what allows us to move beyond inherited fear and the deadening weight of conformity.
This piece is an invitation to return to that inner landscape. To stop building sanctuaries around suffering alone. To remember that joy, too, can be a hiding place. And perhaps an even holier one.
Fairy Fort is part of The Hiding Place series, which explores the inner sanctuaries we create to survive the storms of life—hidden spaces where the self can rest, reflect, and remain intact. Through layered texture, color, and abstraction, these works become quiet shelters. Places to exhale.
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Original acrylic on paper, 2026
Image size: 6 × 6 inches
Professionally matted with an archival white mat to 11 × 14 inches.
Sold unframed.
Signed by the artist and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
About the Work
For some reason, it’s okay to be alone when you choose it. But when someone else chooses it for you, that’s different.
It hurts.
It’s lonely.
Trauma disconnects people from themselves. From the body. From instinct. From desire. You learn to watch yourself from the outside instead of living from within.
Healing. Such a buzzword.
What does it actually mean?
Do we ever really heal, or do we simply metabolize pain into greater sovereignty?
That’s what I’ve done.
Lean further into my own truth.
Seeing, but Unseen is part of The Hiding Place series, which explores the inner sanctuaries we create to survive life's storms—hidden spaces where the self can rest, reflect, and remain intact. Through layered texture, color, and abstraction, these works become quiet places to retreat and exhale.
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Original acrylic on paper, 2026
Image size: 6 × 9 inches
Professionally matted with an archival white mat to 11 × 14 inches.
Sold unframed.
Signed by the artist and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
About the Work
This piece emerged from a simple but life-altering realization: the person most responsible for loving and caring for me was myself.
There comes a point when waiting for tenderness from the outside world becomes unbearable. Waiting to be understood. Chosen gently. Fully seen. An Angel to Myself reflects the moment that longing turns inward instead—toward self-compassion, self-forgiveness, and the quiet work of learning to hold oneself with care.
There is something sacred in that return. Not rescue. Not perfection. Just presence.
This piece is a reminder that healing often begins the moment we stop abandoning ourselves and start becoming the safe place we once searched for in others.
An Angel to Myself is part of The Hiding Place series, which explores the inner sanctuaries we create to survive life's storms—hidden spaces where the self can rest, reflect, and remain intact. Through layered texture, color, and abstraction, these works become quiet shelters. Places to exhale.
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Original acrylic on paper, 2026
Image size: 6 × 9 inches
Professionally matted with an archival white mat to 11 × 14 inches.
Sold unframed.
Signed by the artist and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
About the Work
This piece moves like warmth itself. Swirling light. Soft motion. Greens and blues folding into one another like fabric pulled close around the body. To this day, a soft blanket remains one of my most accessible and enticing refuges.
Even in difficult seasons, there are small things that steady us: friendship, laughter, shared meals, familiar rooms, and the tactile comfort of being held by a moment fully enough that the nervous system softens.
There is a sense of home within this work, though not necessarily a physical place. More a feeling. A memory the body recognizes before the mind does.
A Warm Blanket is part of The Hiding Place series, which explores the inner sanctuaries we create to survive life's storms—hidden spaces where the self can rest, reflect, and remain intact. Through layered texture, color, and abstraction, these works become quiet shelters. Places to exhale.
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Original acrylic on paper, 2026
Image size: 6 × 6 inches
Professionally matted with an archival white mat to 11 × 14 inches.
Sold unframed.
Signed by the artist and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
About the Work
Desperate to Be Alone was the other title I considered for this piece.
I think I paint for the kind of introvert who could happily remain a fly on the wall in almost any situation. The kind who prefers observation to participation.
There's a shirt I love that says, "I'd love to stay and chat, but I'm lying."
That's what solitude feels like to me. Not loneliness. Relief.
I love people. I just don't want to talk to them most of the time.
Solitude is part of The Hiding Place series, which explores the inner sanctuaries we create to survive life's storms—hidden spaces where the self can rest, reflect, and remain intact. Through layered texture, color, and abstraction, these works become quiet places to retreat and exhale.
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Original acrylic on paper, 2026
Image size: 6 × 9 inches
Professionally matted with an archival white mat to 11 × 14 inches.
Sold unframed.
Signed by the artist and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
About the Work
As a child, I often felt most powerful when shielding the vulnerable—those who were overlooked, frightened, abandoned, or made to feel small. In caring for others, fear disappeared. But while I was busy building shelter for everyone else, I struggled to find a place where I could finally rest myself.
Fort of Solitude emerged from the realization that peace cannot be built entirely around external circumstances or other people. Real refuge is internal. It requires stillness, boundaries, and the willingness to stop contorting oneself in order to be accepted, needed, or safe.
There is a sacredness to solitude in this work. Not loneliness, but clarity. A return to the self without intrusion or performance.
This piece is a reminder that the mind is a sacred space. Not every voice deserves residence there. At its center, there should be only you—and love.
Fort of Solitude is part of The Hiding Place series, which explores the inner sanctuaries we create to survive life's storms—hidden spaces where the self can rest, reflect, and remain intact. Through layered texture, color, and abstraction, these works become quiet shelters. Places to exhale.
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Original acrylic on paper, 2026
Image size: 6 × 9 inches
Professionally matted with an archival white mat to 11 × 14 inches.
Sold unframed.
Signed by the artist and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
About the Work
Some of my earliest memories outdoors are filled with beauty: water, trees, sunlight, and the closeness of family. Yet even beautiful places can hold difficulty. Wonder and pain often exist side by side.
At the Lake lives within that tension.
Nature does not erase hardship, but it has a way of restoring proportion. The stillness of water, the rhythm of wind through the trees, the vastness of open space—these things return us to ourselves. They soften the noise. They remind the body how to breathe again.
There is a quiet steadiness in this piece. A sense of balance slowly reemerging. Not because life becomes perfect, but because the natural world continues to offer moments of refuge within it.
At the Lake is part of The Hiding Place series, which explores the inner sanctuaries we create to survive life's storms—hidden spaces where the self can rest, reflect, and remain intact. Through layered texture, color, and abstraction, these works become quiet shelters. Places to exhale.
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Original acrylic on paper, 2026
Image size: 6 × 9 inches
Professionally matted with an archival white mat to 11 × 14 inches.
Sold unframed.
Signed by the artist and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
About the Work
Trapped is an emotion I felt often as a child. I carried it into adulthood. Over time, I had to work out my own sense of autonomy. This piece feels like it sits within a familiar moment of decision: Do I stay, or do I go?
To feel trapped—internally or externally—is a deeply disorienting experience. The body tightens. The spirit contracts. Over time, we forget that movement is still possible. If I Were a Bird, I Would Fly Away speaks to the moment that changes. The moment desire returns. The moment the self remembers it was never meant to live caged.
There is something almost physical about freedom in this work. A lift. A loosening. The sudden expansion that comes when a person begins choosing themselves again.
This piece is a reminder that autonomy is not always loud. Sometimes it begins quietly, as a whisper inside the body:
you can leave.
you can rise.
you can fly.
If I Were a Bird, I Would Fly Away is part of The Hiding Place series, which explores the inner sanctuaries we create to survive life's storms—hidden spaces where the self can rest, reflect, and remain intact. Through layered texture, color, and abstraction, these works become quiet shelters. Places to exhale.
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All shipping costs are United States only. If you are interested in purchasing this piece and live internationally, please contact me. For shipping details, please see our shipping policy.
Details
Original acrylic on paper, 2026
Image size: 6 × 9 inches
Professionally matted with an archival white mat to 11 × 14 inches.
Sold unframed.
Signed by the artist and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
About the Work
As children, we often lack the language to articulate pain, confusion, fear, or emotional complexity. Those feelings do not disappear; they wait quietly beneath the surface, asking to be witnessed by the adults we eventually become. The "wild things" in this work are those hidden inner selves—the unruly emotions, instincts, memories, and vulnerabilities we spend years trying to outrun.
But healing changes the relationship.
What once felt frightening or overwhelming begins to soften under attention and compassion. The wilderness within becomes less of a threat and more of a landscape to move through with curiosity. Where the Wild Things Are reflects that shift: the moment fear gives way to reconciliation.
There is playfulness in this piece, but also acceptance. A sense that the wild things no longer need to be hidden away.
Now, we dance together.
Where the Wild Things Are is part of The Hiding Place series, which explores the inner sanctuaries we create to survive life's storms—hidden spaces where the self can rest, reflect, and remain intact. Through layered texture, color, and abstraction, these works become quiet shelters. Places to exhale.
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