After graduating from Pratt Institute with a bad case of art school burnouts, I took a super long hiatus from creating. When I started to feel the itch to pick up a paintbrush agin, I was living in an Airstream trailer with my husband in Austin, Texas. One sunny day, I stumbled upon this little travel watercolor kit gifted to me years prior and decided to give it a try.

Although I was smitten at first try, it wasn’t until I became a mother, shortly after returning to my paints, that I noticed how healing a watercolor practice could be. Painting became my safe space to drop away from my role of caretaker and reconnect with myself. With this, my style slowly started to loosen up, and I began to find the magic in co-creating with watercolor.

I've witnessed hundreds of students tap into their intuition and shift their energy to allow themselves to experience the present moment through painting.

I teach because I'm passionate about watercolor, but also because every time I get to help guide someone through their perfectionism or self-doubt to a place of ease and fluidity with the brush, I revisit the many times my practice has done the same for me.

We all deserve those moments to remember what it feels like to connect to creativity.