My themes revolve around loss, nostalgia, resurrection, freedom, courage, peace, and roots. Empowerment and healing comes through my process of art making as freedom of self expression enables me to explore my deepest feelings and allows me to express the profound emotions that well up inside my being. Inspired by nature and history, my mixed media works are executed through a series of layering processes combining thick painterly applications and thin delicate glazes or dry pigments. I like to create the sense of “time gone by” on my substrates. Calligraphic marks, French words, and charcoal text expressively fills the paintings with delicate yet bold aesthetics. I employ various techniques such as scraffito to subtly inscribe important “petits secrets” that gradually reveal themselves within the images.