This collection attempts to capture the magic of childhood. Inspired by my children and their creative play, I strove to capture the mood and magic of their imaginations.
“Skate the Tunnel”
In “Skate the Tunnel” I was inspired by my sons’ love of roller skating. I wove together the colors and forms of those first experiences skating. They have intense skates with blinking light-up rainbow wheels and iridescent finishes with hints of purple and turquoise. All of it is so nostalgic and fun, and brings back memories of skating when I was a kid!
“Fairy Dust”
There are magical fairy doors hidden throughout Golden Gate Park and a few other places around the city. My kids and I love to imagine the hidden worlds behind them. I often imagine a chamber filled with heady earthen scents, and illuminated by rays of golden sunlight in which fairy dust floats and shimmers, amongst glittering beating wings and wildflowers.
“Broken Sleep”
Painting in the middle of the night is the main way I maintain my art practice in this season of parenting, as it’s some of the only time I get to myself. All too often it means a night of very few hours of sleep, as my schedule never allows for sleeping in. In the earliest hours, broken sleep sometimes feels like there is a fogged window between waking and dreams that I can slip back and forth between.