I'm an artist and designer living and working in Kansas. My most recent work is in oil, wax, and mixed media, incorporating these elements to create works that explore nature and solitude.
I’m an artist based in the Midwest, where I was born and have lived most of my life. My practice is supported by an art education degree and a Master of Liberal Arts, and I previously worked professionally as an instructional designer. I began showing my work professionally in 2017.
My early practice was grounded in watercolor and gouache, where I fell in love with the fluid interplay of color and transparency. Transitioning into encaustic and mixed media allowed me to carry those luminous qualities into a highly tactile realm. Through layering pigmented beeswax, I build surfaces that use texture and translucency to explore the emotional weight of space and time.
In 2020, my work shifted toward a more minimalist distillation of the landscape. Drawing inspiration from the midwestern landscape and idealized places of imagination, my pieces aim to strip away the non-essential to reveal the elemental heart of a location.
About my encaustic and mixed media works
The process of painting with molten beeswax and resin mirrors the atmospheric layers of the land itself. By building up and scraping back translucent layers of wax, I can replicate the hazy depth of a summer heat shimmer or the biting clarity of a winter morning. The organic nature of the wax provides a tactile connection to the earth, while its luminous quality allows light to penetrate the surface—mimicking the way sunshine filters through a dense canopy or settles across open grasses.
My paintings do not document a specific location, but attempt to distill the feeling of solitude and the simplicity of remote Midwest landscapes. By focusing on the interplay of texture and light, I invite the viewer to step into the stillness of the interior landscape.
Encaustic itself is ancient technique dates back to ancient Egypt and Greece, from at least the 4th century BCE. Once the classical era ended the encaustic technique fell out of use but never entirely went away. In the late 19th century it experienced a revival that has continues to grow.
Selected Shows & Exhibitions
2026
Not Your Grandmother’s Landscape, 80 Santa Fe, Overland Park, KS
Color Outside the Lines, Buttonwood ArtSpace, Kansas City, MO
Patterns of the Prairie, Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center, Overland Park, KS
Group Show, Second Presbyterian Church, Kansas City, MO
2025
Small Works, HJ’s Youth and Community Center, Kansas City MO
Halloween Show, Smalter Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Member Show, InterUrban ArtHouse, Overland Park, KS
Now Showing, Kauffman Conference Center, Kansas City MO
What Do You See?, 80 Santa Fe Gallery, Overland Park, KS
29th Annual Heartland Artist Exhibition, Tim Murphy Gallery, Merriam, KS
2024
Show Your Art Here, Carter Art Center, Metropolitan Community College, Kansas City MO
2024 Visions of the Flint Hills, Buttonwood ArtSpace, Kansas City, MO
Prairie Palette: Colors of the Flint Hills, Johnson County Library, Gardner KS
It's the Little Things, InterUrban ArtHouse, Overland Park, KS
Passport, 80 Santa Fe Gallery, Overland Park, KS
Tallgrass: A Prairie Perspective, Featured Artist, Monarca Art Space, Kansas City MO
2023
Sanctuary: Nature and Solitude, Monarca Art Space, Kansas City MO
2023 Visions of the Flint Hills, Buttonwood ArtSpace, Kansas City, MO
Emergence, 80 Santa Fe Gallery, Overland Park, KS
Art Heals, InterUrban ArtHouse, Overland Park, KS
Member Show, Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art, St Joseph, MO
2022
2022 Visions of the Flint Hills, Buttonwood ArtSpace, Kansas City, MO
Her Art/Their Art, InterUrban ArtHouse, Overland Park, KS
2021
Life in Quarantine, Art at the Center, Overland Park, KS
2020
Who Does She Think She Is? InterUrban ArtHouse, Overland Park, KS
Local Women in Art Invitational Exhibition, Art at the Center, Overland Park, KS
2019
12x12 Show, InterUrban ArtHouse, Overland Park, KS
Member Showcase, InterUrban ArtHouse, Overland Park, KS
2018
One Night Stand, Kansas City Artist Coalition,
Kansas City, MO
2017
Kansas City Art Institute Continuing & Professional Studies Invitational Exhibition, Kansas City, MO
2016
Kansas City Art Institute Continuing & Professional Studies Invitational Exhibition, Kansas City, MO
Related Experience
Artist member, the Encaustic Art Institute, Cerrillos, NM
Artist member, InterUrban ArtHouse, Overland Park, KS
Master of Liberal Arts, Baker University
BS in Art Education, University of Alabama