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06 Mar 2026
My inspiration comes from my current state of reality and most often my art speaks on my interests, my background, and the social justice realm. My recent work has dealt a lot with mental health, women’s rights, and immigration.
Moments - whether they be past or present. Most of my newer work in the last few years has been sparked primarily by my grief journey, my inner city youth programming, and the attack on equal rights whether that be racial, LGBTQ+, women, or immigrant rights.
What is something people might not know about you as an artist?
My most intensive education in creating art was by old school nuns at an all girls high school, focusing on traditional oil painting. Once I took my first printmaking course in college, everything changed and I fell in love with print. My degrees are in art history and fine arts - I was producing reduction woodcuts. Most people now just see me as a screen printing artist focusing on apparel.
Connection and vulnerability. I have never been very good at verbally expressing my emotions. When I finally started allowing myself to be vulnerable and blatantly honest in my art about what I was going through, people started thanking me for the honesty, for the visibility in sharing things most are too nervous to talk about. It created a community of support and connection that I didn’t know was there.
I had seen so many old gig posters and trippy wall hangings with the DayGlo colors growing up but it wasn’t until 2018 during my first DayGlo show at Waterloo that I was able to first use them myself. I fell in love with them immediately. I have used each DayGlo show since to push myself to experiment with the paint, creating something out of my comfort zone and completely different in regards to style and look than my normal artwork.
