About the Artist

Luminosity isn't something I add to a painting. It's what made me reach for the pastel in the first place — that moment when light hits an object and transforms it into something unexpected.

I work in soft pastel because it’s the medium closest to pure pigment — color in its most direct form, applied by hand. There is no brush, no solvent, no barrier between the pigment and the surface. 

My work moves captures how I see four worlds. In Vermont, I'm drawn to the golden hour across barns, fields, and winter roads — the way late afternoon sun turns a snow-covered hillside violet, or how morning mist softens a red barn. On reflective surfaces, I follow light as it fractures and reforms — reflections that double the world and dissolve it at the same time. In urban areas, I find luminosity at its most theatrical: neon on wet pavement, sunlight filtering through street trees onto a café sidewalk, the glow of a window against dusk. Our inner light can be quietly poignant, or amusingly wry.  

Recent Awards & Juried Shows

2026

• IAPS 2026 Juried Fall Webshow, 49th Open Division
• Vermont Pastel Society - 2026 Member Exhibit, Pomfret, VT, Figuratively Speaking
• Pastel Society of Maine - 26th Open Juried Exhibition, international juried online
• Monument Arts & Cultural Center - Winter Stillness, Bennington, VT, 2nd Place
• Vermont Pastel Society - 2026 Juried Show, Burlington, VT, Mallory Lake Memorial Award

2025

• Vermont Pastel Society - Member Show, Brattleboro, VT, Adironack Pastel Society Reflective Waterscape Award