This Summer I am finishing up final pieces for my upcoming show, In Her Nature, which will be held at LibertyTown Arts Workshop this coming August. Most of my bigger pieces are complete and I’m incredibly proud of what I’ve been able to create in the last year leading up to this. I’ve seen so much growth in myself and my work, and I’m thrilled to be able to finally share that soon with you! I’m still tying up loose ends, but I’m in the home stretch and it feels like this big impossible task is indeed possible. One of the loveliest bonuses of accomplishing difficult tasks is realizing other things that once felt insurmountable now appear so much easier in comparison. Capacity expands.
The themes in this show are deeply personal, and it’s been therapeutic but difficult to get to this point. I believe to live creatively is to live vulnerably, and I have felt both exposed and stretched during the entire process. I am trying to shine light into broken places and I don’t fully know yet what may grow there.
Below is one of the newly completed pieces for the show. I was able to use friends as models for some of the paintings, and I hope that really adds to the work. I learned so much through posing, lighting, photographing, and painting them and I’m so grateful for their contributions. In the age of AI art, I really want my work to feel as human as possible. I want you to feel as if you can touch this person, this skin, this paint, this story, and hopefully it touches you back.
