I am a native of Salt Lake City where I live with my husband Kevin.  In 2012 I went back to finish the degree I began 20 years ago at Brigham Young University, and graduated in August 2014.  My art is a product of 3 characteristics of my personality that drive me.

I believe that when you are driven to create, you begin to see things around you in a different light.

​I have been impressed with the idea that everything, literally everything around us, including our own bodies, came up out of the earth.  We have mined and continue to mine the earth and use its resources, which once we are done with them are left to be taken back by the earth.  I am interested in mining the mined.  There are piles of transformed earth everywhere.  They have been altered by men and are a record of man’s ability to transform.  These are my palette which I collect, break down and then rebuild, combining colors and textures in new ways.  There is something very satisfying in the creative challenge of using the unusable.

I love to work two-dimensionally because once I have compacted a pile, I can then hang it on a wall where the amount of space it requires is minimal and the space all around it is free and uncluttered.

I see a pile or mess and I want to compact the pile, putting it into the tightest possible space and giving it gravity.

I love to work two-dimensionally because once I have compacted a pile, I can then hang it on a wall where the amount of space it requires is minimal and the space all around it is free and uncluttered.