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After moving to Toronto, confronted with lots of change and my own sensitivity, I realized the importance of creating to express my feelings and experiences. I create art that is expressive and relatable, showing feelings that aren’t always easily articulated. I work with acrylic paint to make art that is often figurative and highly narrative.

"Heartstrings" Fine Art Print Complete Collection

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"Heartstrings" Fine Art Print Complete Collection

"Heartstrings (2/3)" depicts a woman laying back with her arm stretched out, yarn hanging from her finger tips over the edge of her bed.

"Heartstrings (2/3)" Fine Art Print

A photograph of my print "Abuk" depicting a dark-skinned black woman in a rainforest, surrounded by tropical butterflies. She has bright red hair. This is a standard print, with an off-white border.

"Abuk" Fine Art Print

"Heartstrings (3/3)" depicts a woman laying back with her arms above her head, yarn hanging from her fingertips over her chest.

"Heartstrings (3/3)" Fine Art Print

"Heartstrings (1/3)" depicts a woman staring up at her hands tangled in yarn draping down into her lap.

"Heartstrings (1/3)" Fine Art Print

A photograph of my print "It hurts to wait" depicting a woman dissociated into four copies of herself to symbolize emotional spiralling. She wears only a white silk shirt and is seated in cream sheets.

"It hurts to wait" Fine Art Print

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December 2, 2022

Home Free

What do you call it when for personal, financial, aspirational and/or interpersonal reasons you decide to quit your day job, leave the city, and move back home with your family who you haven’t lived with full-time since senior year of high school? Say it with me now… a mental breakd-… an artist’s retreat*! Here’s what I’ve been up to in the last month on my “creative hiatus” …

Death of "The Chill Girl"

Death of "The Chill Girl"

Like so many people out there, I have aspired consciously and unconsciously to be “the chill girl” for far too long and it has taken much too much from me. I am in the process of a personal and artistic rebrand where I try to admit that I do in fact have wants and needs beyond what I currently have. I am determined to responsibly and mindfully stop giving into fear so that I can make the kind of art I feel called to make and manifest opportunities that are more in alignment with my goals.

Women in a gallery looking at a minimalistic black circle painting.

February 26, 2022

“Are you pretentious?” “Maybe.” “Well, are you a good witch or a bad witch?” …

pre·ten·tious

If you say that someone or something is pretentious, you mean that they try to seem important or significant, but you do not think that they are. (Collins Dictionary)

Just as beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, who and what is pretentious will always be contentious.

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