My love for art started very young along with the relationship I have with my dreams and the sleeping world. I kept to ink and paper until recently when I decided I wanted to venture into the world of big canvases and acrylic painting. It opened up another way of storytelling for me. I could communicate differently this way, it seemed I could translate the scenes in my head in more detail. My expression felt like it was wide awake and ready to speak.

My art and my writing at times, is the only way I can communicate my most intense memories. The traumatic/medical experiences, my dreams and how vivid they are, and my family and their spirituality and superstitious beliefs.

The Queen’s Lantern

This painting represents the cards we are dealt and the ocean we feel when we are swimming through a traumatic experience. The door in the background is the door we walk through when we heal. The clocks are a symbol of the time that’s passing, they represent the times that are most significant in my life. The moon is blindfolded because everything isn’t clear until we pass through the worst.

Behind the Dark

This painting is influenced by my love of Paris, New Orleans, and my French background. In this painting I wanted to share some of what makes these places magical to me. They both have the extra layer of stories of both the light and the darkness. The warnings and the blessings that are found here. Small details like the saying hidden in the catacombs of the painting. I wanted to show the symbiotic relationship between life and death and the hidden every day existence of the paranormal.