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Summer checklist: inflatable banana? ✅ Dog loafing in the background? ✅ Yep. We’re good.

(i have this banana every year for summer, the banana will make a painting)

July 1, 2025

So this is me...i'm someone who loves being home, painting, thinking, and doing things that amuse me.

I once hosted a dinner party where I asked everyone to wear creepy animal masks, which I had laid out beside each plate. It felt like dinner theater. 10/10 would do it again.

I love self-deprecating humor. What I don’t love is when someone doesn’t realize it’s a bit and thinks they’re invited to start insulting me too. (No ma’am. This is a one-person show.)

I wish I could watch scary movies. It looks so fun—the screaming, the laughing, the jumping. But I get scared embarrassingly easy and then those images live rent-free in my head for eternity. 

My favorite food is a plain Helmann’s mayo sandwich. Just bread. And mayo. Yes, I know. I’ve accepted it. 

Also—I have one magic trick. Just one. But it works every time, and it absolutely blows people’s minds. I live for that moment of, “WAIT… WHAT?!” Makes me feel like a wizard.

So that’s me. Welcome.🐰🎭🐻

(Music choice: Blind Melon; No Rain)

July 1, 2025

Ever wonder if a hen likes to sunbathe? Oh… they LOVE it. ☀️🐓 The first time I saw it, I thought something was terribly wrong. Flat on her side, staring into space. Her eyes dilated—I panicked. Ran for help. Turns out… she was just having the best day of her life.

June 2025

A collector shared a photo of their space (which made my day!) they encouraged to share a space that matters to me...and I love that idea, so here is mine...part studio, part time machine, part dog nap zone.

I either paint inn complete silence (while listening to my dog snore) or I pop in a dvd that I've been carrying around for years that somehow survived decades unscratched. It's a time warp when they play and keeps me company.

I paint or draw most days. I put my supplies away at night so when morning comes, it feels like a fresh start...nothing waiting or the feeling I have to fix something. I clear it all away every night so it always feels like a blank canvas the next day.

Here's to blank canvases, old dvds, and fresh starts.

(Music Choice for Creation: Morphine; Candy)

The hens have an art show date! Looking forward to having "Chicken Stories" at Spirit of the Lake Arts for the Pop-up Chicken Art Show during the Homegrown Music Festival this week in Duluth, May 2-3, 2025.

Dropping off my painting "Holding Love Close" at Zeitgeist for the Gender Joy Art Show. Thank you to YWCA Duluth for organizing. 

My piece celebrates compassion and care, challenging the idea that softness is weakness, and honoring the courage it takes to love openly. 

To me, this show is about the joy and strength of being your truest self. It's a space where tenderness is strength, and being vulnerable is being brave.

May 1, 2025

Enjoying "April Showers, May Flowers!" Exhibition at the Nordic Center Duluth where blooms are everywhere, and my hens are right at home.

This show reminds us of the beauty and wildflowers that grow when we let nature lead the way. 

Painting chickens is close to my heart. Their intelligence often goes unnoticed, but they are emotionally sensitive creatures with powerful memories and deep bonds.

The hens are headed to town! "A Life Meant to Wander," "Reaching for the Sun," and "Among Giants" will be part of the upcoming "April Showers, May Flowers!" Exhibition at the Nordic Center Duluth. 

Each piece honors chickens as sensitive, intelligent beings with stories worth telling, a celebration of dignity, curiousity, and freedom that blossoms when we allow all creatures to live as they were meant to: gently, among wildflowers.

March 31, 2025

A special thank you to Art Reach St. Croix for the moving exhibition. 

I was honored to have "Weight of the World" in the show, a piece where a yellow pear delicately balances a red apple on its stem. A meditation on strength and fragility, weighted with the tension between balance and collapse. It reflects the quiet, daily act of holding it all together. 

It was truly moving to witness the work of so many incredible artists.