Artist Statement

I am a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is deeply influenced by the living world. As a lifelong ecologist and plant person, my practice sits at the intersection of art, ecology, and herbalism. I work with the alchemical processes of the Green World—eco-printing, plant-based papermaking, natural pigments, alternative photographic methods, foraging, and medicine-making—to explore relationship, creativity, and co-existence.

In my practice, I tend the spaces where art and herbalism interweave—gathering pigments, making books by hand, and creating works that connect people, plants, and place. Working as both collector and connector, I transform natural pigments, handmade papers, and plant impressions into eco-art narratives that remember art itself as a form of medicine. My materials are often of the earth; the slow, handcrafted process becomes a way to ground myself, listen, and collaborate with the more-than-human world.

Through workshops and gatherings, I invite people into practices of attention and care—to enter into relationship and to experience art-making as a dialogue with plants, land, and season. In this approach, pigment, paper, and plant become teachers of interconnection, guiding us toward a deeper sense of belonging.

Over the past several years, I have developed a process-based methodology I call Art that Breathes: a creative practice rooted in ethical wildcrafting, plant collaboration, and ecological reverence. The plants I work with are gathered with permission and gratitude from the land I call home on Pocumtuc/Nipmuc territory, also known as Western Massachusetts. Their natural pigments, fibers, leaves, and flowers shape the work—each imprint a springboard for dialogue with other life forms and an invitation to remember our reciprocity with Gaia.

For more than 25 years, I have taught herbalism and holistic well-being, lectured widely throughout the Northeast, and cultivated intentional communities where people feel supported by the Green World. My work is inspired by the life and legacy of scientist Rachel Carson, polymath and visionary Hildegard von Bingen, Spiritualist artist Hilma af Klint, and Surrealists Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, and Kati Horna.

I am a Massachusetts-based artist and a proud member of the queer LGBTQIA+ community.

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