Landscape painter and plein air artist based in Santa Fe, NM.
Growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico allowed me the unique opportunity to experience a rich culture and the wonder of an expansive landscape. I always loved nature, mountain biking and catching lizards in the Sandia foothills and camping all over the state. I also received artistic education through high school but always enjoyed it as a passionate hobby. After getting a degree in Environmental Studies at Austin College in Texas, I moved back to New Mexico. Needing artistic fulfillment, I returned to work at Barbara Meikle Fine Art to pursue a creative career. My appreciation for the arts was renewed with an introduction to plein air painting.
My work invites the viewer to stop and take a second to enjoy a sense of calm. Nature for me has always been a place of refuge as well as imagination and I constantly seek to capture both in my plein air and studio work. Through my environmental studies background, I focused on academic ways to explain and quantify nature’s importance and beauty. But I came back to art for those same reasons – art says simply what research tries to codify. Our experience with the natural world is anecdotal; its importance is universal. If a viewer sees for the first time the beauty in what they thought mundane, I have done my job as an artist.
Thank you for your interest in my work! I invite you to sit and stay a while.
Please contact me directly to inquire about adding a painting to your collection or representation opportunities. A digital portfolio of my current and past body of work is also available upon request.
