Born and raised in South Seattle I grew up riding the city bus, attending school and daydreaming about fashion and interior design. I received my BA in International Studies from the University of Washington while not so secretly studying books on art and design in the stacks of Suzzalo Library. Presently I work as a multidisciplinary artist incorporating painting, printmaking, encaustic, and photography. I have always been drawn to color and pattern. The urge to make things started early, I remember as a preschooler arranging leaves and flowers on the ground to create shapes and patterns. There was not much language for art making in my upbringing, but I was surrounded by makers-carpenters, sewers, gardeners and cooks, so I learned to love process, problem solving and doing things in a way that made them my own.