WHERE ARE YOU RIGHT NOW AND HAVE YOU ALWAYS LIVED THERE?
I am living outside of Dallas, Texas. I have always lived in and around Dallas, but I am appreciating the extra room being outside of the city affords me for painting and studio space right now.
WHERE WERE BORN AND BROUGHT UP?
Outside of Dallas, Texas.
WHAT'S THE BEST THING ABOUT YOUR PRESENT CITY OR PLACE OF BIRTH?
I think Texans have a great flare for individuality and bold style. We celebrate strong personalities here, for better or worse I suppose.
WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVOURITE CHILDHOOD MEMORIES?
Having tea parties with my sister and dolls in our front lawn, wearing princess dresses.
WHY FASHION?
It’s irresistible. I can’t not love and obsess over it.
WHY ART?
For the exact same reason! Seeing a great painting fills me with joy and lust to live and create. I have no art training though. I have very poor hand-eye coordination actually, it was a problem for me when I was younger. I never excelled in art class for that reason, the teacher would always wonder why I couldn’t do the technical exercises and or draw in proportion. I am glad I didn’t go to art school, I think it would have killed my enjoyment of creating.
WHAT'S YOUR PROCESS FROM CONCEPT TO CREATION?
By drawing a lot, I have assembled a cast of characters in my work. My cats, teddy bears, dragons, and red-dressed ladies are always there for me and I can arrange them in different vignettes. I draw a lot, every single day. I keep a few ideas bobbing around in my head and I let my hands go crazy in my notebook. The final product is always a surprise.
Notebook paper and Blackwing pencils are the most important start to any artwork, that’s always the medium where I begin.
WHO OR WHAT HAS HAD THE GREATEST INFLUENCE ON YOUR WORK?
Definitely my mom. She has incredible taste, and she has been working very hard on her own artwork too. She has been making these amazing chair sculptures for the last two years. We text back and forth about the artwork we are working on all day long and we meet often to discuss ideas and new directions.
AND YOUR APPEAL OF DARKNESS?
I am thinking of a piece that I read by the artist and poet Sean T. Randolph, written for the opening of the Air Kiss art show at Gattopardo gallery in Los Angeles. I will quote Sean’s writing here, because I think it’s a perfect capture the upside of darkness lately: "We have spent the past two years fearing what is floating in the air. I don’t know about you, but it has left me feeling untethered. We are living our lives like ghosts barreling through the dark, camouflaged in night colored sedans, praying we don’t hit a deer. But in the darkness we tune in, maybe better than we have ever tuned in before. Now we can hear past the radio, past the fuel pump, past the grip of the tires on the road and into our untapped capabilities. What we once considered a coincidence is now a prophecy.”
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONAL AESTHETIC?
I try to be very open-minded and seek new experiences and inspiration, but I will always be drawn to bold, colorful, and boisterous work.
WHAT MOMENT ARE YOU HAVING?
I am definitely settling into a brand new chapter of my life. It’s exciting and invigorating, and I am thinking of the future constantly. I’ve been staying home and working on art non-stop the last few months. It’s taught me a lot of discipline but I am ready to have a little bit of fun now, too.
WHAT DO YOU GET UP TO WHEN YOU'RE NOT WORKING?
I like to read romance novels and cook. My husband I have been extremely interested in collecting fragrances, too, often at night once work is done we will go over new perfume samples and discuss them together. 1
WHAT BEAUTY ROUTINE DO YOU SWEAR BY?
Clascoterone cream. It’s amazing for hormonal acne if you can’t take Accutane or go on spironolactone. Buying fancy skincare is nice, but in my experience the stuff that makes the biggest difference comes from a dermatologist!
HOW DO YOU UNWIND?
I like big sentimental romantic art, and I am a huge fan of 1940s women’s pictures, like those made by Douglas Sirk. I like to get a little cocktail and make some cheese dip and watch them alone. They are having a showcase of Douglas Sirk's work on Criterion Channel right now and I think I will spend my evenings watching All That Heaven Allows and Magnificent Obsession over and over the next few weeks. I just love the colors in his movies. I also enjoy film noir a lot. Sound stage movies have a lot of appeal for me, I like the artificiality and stillness. It’s the limitations of genre movies that interest me so much.
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