I’m a mixed media artist and business owner living in Philadelphia. For more than two decades, I worked as a digital artist — first in the video game industry, then at a graphic design firm my husband and I built and ran together. Along the way, I started buying and fixing up rental properties — I enjoy the hands-on, sweat-equity work of improving them, and since leaving corporate life, it’s also become my unofficial 401k.

While all that fed a creative part of my brain, something was still missing. So I made the intentional decision to shift gears and give my artistic life the space it was asking for.

I’d always been involved with artist communities, volunteered with art organizations, and showed work in open studios and juried exhibits in San Francisco and Philadelphia. But now I am living more fully into what it actually means to be an artist.

These days, I serve as a Guide for Art2Life, an international artist community; volunteer locally with Center for Creative Works; and spend more time than ever in my studio in Fishtown.

After spending decades behind computer screens, I craved the tactile experience of art-making – touching actual materials, spreading paint around, combining different textures.

My work celebrates the magic in everyday moments. I follow what calls me: turning found street posters into collage, letting random scribbles evolve into unexpected creatures, and chasing ideas in my sketchbook every day.