I am originally from Lafourche Parish in South Louisiana. I moved up to Louisville, KY in 2003 to begin a new chapter in my life. After graduating from Nicholls State University in the spring of 2003, I felt the need for change. Louisville, KY was the haven I needed to expand my horizons. A few months after settling, I started selling art supplies and teaching art classes and began receiving commissions. I've also recently gotten the opportunity to do some courtroom sketching and also provide work for the Speed Art Museum. I am currently a full-time, independent artist.

My commissions have included babushkas, or Russian nesting dolls--I appreciate the form of the doll and the way the composition and design are applied to it and interact with each one--I also enjoy doing portraits, still-lifes, and imaginative, simplistic landscape illustrations--mostly charcoal, pastel, ink and colored pencil drawings, and I've also gotten into murals. For my expressive and realistic work, my subject matter is my environment--both physical and metaphysical. I think my drawings are mostly about perspective and perception usually set in an unknown time or place. I enjoy painting still lifes and abstracts. Most of my abstract paintings are created through pure randomness. I choose a support, and I cover the support with a textured medium. My art has unique color, texture, and repeated mark-making. I mask off various areas of the composition, and I paint what I feel. I love bright, bold, vibrant colors. I have accepted and incorporated some of Wassily Kandinsky's ideas about painting and color. One of his anthems for my art is this: "And at times when the human soul is gaining greater strength, art will also grow in power, for the two are inextricably connected and complementary one to the other." My other still-lifes and portraits are for study purposes. I believe that an artist needs to continually make, create, study, think, and play art, no matter what. I want to continue to have passion for art--in all forms. There is an intensity and passion for art that I long to be consumed by... none could state it better: "...even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almight in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell." --Pablo Picasso