An ode to new life in Spring. Inspired by starting seeds for my garden and watching the marvelous ways they unfurl and grow.

Acrylic on 8" x 8" wooden canvas

Inspired by the world under the ocean and how it can seem as unfamiliar to us land dwellers as outer space, but at the same time, eerily familiar, like an alternate reality.

Acrylic on 8" x 8" wooden canvas

There's no right way to exist, you are who you are, and you get to decide how you show up in the world at any given moment.

Acrylic on 10" x 10" stretched canvas

Riffing on pastel colors.

Acrylic on 10" x 10" stretched canvas

Lots of seed and plant imagery in this piece and extensive use of a kernel-like brush stroke.

Acrylic on 8" x 8" wooden canvas

Seed and flower imagery within raindrops as the Spring rains fall to the earth and give life.

Acrylic on 8" x 8" wooden canvas

A lace doily pattern drawn inside the shape of Lake Superior with a lacy, wavy netting surrounding the Lake. The colors were inspired by satellite images of Lake Superior in early spring.

This piece is a whimsical illustration of Duluth’s famous Aerial Lift Bridge. The perspective is slightly skewed to represent how you’d get this view of the bridge - bobbing out on Lake Superior just at the end of the canal.

I started this drawing by creating a color palette just by picking colors that were speaking to me at the moment. When I finished and looked at all the colors, I felt they captured a Minnesota aesthetic, so I used those colors to draw some flowing patterns inside the outline of the state.

From my Cosmic Royalty series. An abstract illustration of a whimsical world within a vagina. The character seen front and center wears a flowing head wrap and vulva-inspired dress as they take a happy afternoon stroll. Little pet animals, included a flying vulva-like creature and a tongue-like snail, joyously flutter and dart around the person, accompanying them on their walk. Puissant means “having great power or influence” and evokes the common euphemism “pussy.”

A majestic nonbinary being. They stand proudly, vulnerably, embracing all their complexity and loving everything about themself. Part of my Cosmic Royalty series of illustrations.

From my Cosmic Royalty series. Just a fun phallic tentacle monster.

I started this drawing by creating a color palette just by picking colors that were speaking to me at the moment. When I finished and looked at all the colors, I felt they captured a Minnesota aesthetic, so I used those colors to draw some flowing patterns inside the outline of the state.

For this piece I picked a simple, warm, three-color palette and focused on creating detailed and interesting patterns and layering.

This piece is an illustrated map of my neighborhood in Duluth, MN. It encompasses parts of downtown Duluth and some of the Hillside neighborhood from Superior St to 7th St and Mesaba to 3rd Ave E. After tracing the street grid, I used the satellite imagery as inspiration for the design of each city block.

For this piece I picked a delicious four-color palette and focused on creating detailed and interesting patterns and layering.

In some of my pieces I play with different patterns in different sections. This drawing was inspired by a pattern I used in a small portion of another piece. I liked it a lot and wanted to dive into it some more. I enjoyed the simplicity of only using three colors in the palette for this piece.

I love playing with patterns. I like contrasting different patterns to give the drawing more depth. The color palette in this one is reminiscent of the Pacific Northwest (where I lived for a few years).