hello there!

I’m an Ohio native living in Fort Collins, Colorado with my husband, two boys, an orange and white cat, and our one hundred and fifty-ish pound pup. Graphic design and project management have been my career for nearly twenty five years, but making the leap to being an artist has been completely new territory. While it didn’t happen overnight, my abstract tissue paper collage artwork has grown out of my accumulated time living and working in the American southwest, the midwest, and now near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It all started by creating a fun, unique texture for the background of a kid’s summer art program brochure with tissue paper, and has matured into the playful yet sophisticated tissue compositions you see here today. Blending colors and using cut and torn paper to create textural, organic forms brings me both peace and happiness, and I’d like to share that joy with you. 

Layering the fine tissue paper allows me to utilize the material’s inherent transparency to yield color compositions and palettes that feel similar to mixing paint. I’ve never met a hue I didn’t love! Organic patterns in nature, a passion for midcentury design, architecture graduate school, and my graphic design work are a few of the things that consistently inspire me to make simple, vibrant artwork elevating a humble and often overlooked material. 

In January 2020, an exhibition of my work titled tisshue opened at Dattner Architects in New York City. It featured fourteen tissue paper collage pieces including a wide range of compositions and bold, color palettes. My work is currently available through Minted, mpix, West Elm Kids — rainbow clouds, mod toucan, paper space I and paper space II, West Elm, and previously with Pottery Barn Kids, Samsung, Target, The Affordable Art Fair NYC, and The Met. In October 2024, I participated in the Fort Collins Artist Studio Tour and Sale at Kestrel Fields Studio.