For more than twenty years, my work has grown in the space where art, nature, and curiosity meet. I create mixed-media and encaustic artwork using natural materials, found objects, maps, minerals, and ephemera. My art practice is deeply influenced by the landscape around me here in Troutdale, Oregon, the forests, fields, creek, and wild edges of the place I call home.
I’m also the founder of The Verdancy Project, a nature-based creative residency and community arts space. What started as a small experiment in connection and curiosity has grown into a heart-centered place for artists, writers, performers, and creative nature-lovers to rest, make, explore, and return to themselves. Being its steward, tending the land, welcoming creatives, and building community is one of the great joys of my life.
As a writer, I explore themes of creativity, ecology, community-building, and lived experience. I’m the author of the forthcoming book Cultivating Creativity: A Guide to Launching Your Artist Residency Program, as well as the anthology Cycles of Creation: Five Years of The Verdancy Project.
Whether I’m making art, writing, gardening, hosting residencies, or gathering people together under the trees, my work is always rooted in wonder, generosity, and care for the natural world. I believe creativity is a relationship with the land, with each other, and with the quiet places inside us that ask to be tended.
Welcome. I’m glad you’re here.
