About

I've been creating since I was four years old, making clay bowls in creek beds, drawing in alphabet books I wasn't supposed to touch, and walking to school before anyone gave me permission to go. Creativity has never been something I chose.

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My own creative journey has been anything but linear. I once hated printmaking and painting, convinced I could never master either. But through watching, learning, and traveling, including an unforgettable printmaking workshop in France. I discovered that mastery was never the point. Relaxing into the process was. Today my heart lives most fully in ceramics, drawing, doodling, and journaling, though I bring curiosity and openness to every medium I encounter.

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Art has been my constant companion through every season of life, through grief, through joy, through the quiet ordinary moments and the ones that changed everything. When my mother passed in 2022, I decided to write a book titled,  I Thought It Was Beautiful: A Creative Journey to Healing, Self-Expression, and Finding Yourself, as an act of healing, bravery, and love.

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I am also the founder of Female Thought Club, a space on Instagram where I love to encourage and empower others to see themselves clearly, as the beautiful, creative souls they were always meant to be. My faith is central to everything I do, grounding me in purpose and guiding me toward the work I believe I was called to.

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Looking ahead I am working toward art journaling retreats that combine travel, creativity, and community spaces where women can come together to find themselves through their art. It is the next chapter of a life that has always been guided by one simple belief: that everyone has a creative voice waiting to be heard. My mission is simply to help them find it.

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I am a proud mother who lives in Central Ohio with my husband and three gentle Great Danes. When I'm not teaching or creating I'm tending my Monarch Waystation garden, capturing beauty through my camera lens, and finding God in the ordinary moments that make this life so worth living.