I infuse art with love, healing energy, and intentions that intrigue, inspire and empowering people to be their best visions of themselves.
I like to say I grew up in " the wilds of Florida ".
As a latch key kid, I was unsupervised much of the time and played outside under and in the trees as often as possible. Nature and the woods have always been my inspiration.
My family supplied me with opportunities to create all kinds of art with lots of mediums. Therefore, I was not constrained by conventional rules and formulas. I love to find new ways to do things and re-use every day materials with surprising outcomes.
I am primarily a self taught mixed media artist that paints two dimensional wall art as well as textured and sculpted paper art often made from papers I recycle myself, including junk-mail. I like to surprise people with not only the subject and image but also the medium. As a young adult I enjoyed being a professional drywall finisher for several years. That process later inspired my desire to create textured and sculpted paper art.
All of my art work is inspired by the natural environment which I strive to protect and preserve in my daily life as well as in my art. It is representational and frequently surreal in design. I often see hidden images in trees and landscapes that I delight in bringing forth on paper, canvas, wood and paper sculpture.
The finished work speaks to how we as people seek to connect with not only nature and art, but also that deep place within us that yearns to inspire and transform to greater version of ourselves and the world around us.
It has become such a fun and unique adventure to create textured paper wall art that I occasionally create wearable art masks, decorative mirrors and now incredible, unique, lightweight jewelry that can either look like ceramic, metal, stone and sometimes glass.
You can find my jewelry in my Etsy shop, PaperLightDesign.