My creative process starts with sketching to develop some initial compositions and characters. Then I work quickly and spontaneously while painting or drawing. I like the unpredictable accidents that happen while creating. In my drawings I use a variety of inks, acrylics, watercolors, and oil pastels. I incorporate scans of different vintage fabrics and textures and then digitally combine them with the drawn or painted elements.
My intent is for my work to retain an organic and handmade feel to it. Color, texture, line and pattern are all important in my work. I find inspiration in my favorite artists, including Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois, Vera B. Williams, Jack Ezra Keats, Christian Robinson, and Quentin Blake.
I have over ten years of experience working with both small and large organizations, including non-profit and for-profit businesses. I’m an enthusiastic, creative designer, who loves new challenges and solving different design problems.
Projects that I’ve worked on have included branding and logo work, book covers and layouts for individual books and series, brochures, stationery, websites, and advertisements for print and web.
I am technically proficient at InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and other software tools on the Adobe Creative Cloud. As a studio artist by training, I bring my personal aesthetic to my design work, which sets me a part from purely technical designers.
My published work includes over ten different series of books produced for a leading educational book publisher. I was the designer on all of the series I worked on and also worked as an author on a number of them. Some of the series included original illustrations that I created.
I also designed book covers for non-fiction books, The Once and Future Celt: A memoir by Bill Watkins and Tragedy in South Lebanon: The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006 by Cathy Sultan.
