Hiya Friends! 

Thanks for visiting my little corner of the internet.  I am an oil painter and mixed media artist creating vibrant, emotionally charged work rooted in transformation, joy, and reverence for being alive.

I was born in 1985 in St. Paul, Minnesota, and I’ve been living in the metro area my whole life.  I love it here!  I've been a total art nerd since elementary school.  As I moved into high school I began to play with clay and pottery- which grew into sculpture, and eventually became a full-bodied language in oil paint and mixed media. I continued my education at Century College, the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and the Milan Art Institute.  But truthfully, my greatest teacher has always been lived experience.

I’m a mother to two sons, and that role has expanded my heart in ways that show up in everything I create. There’s a tenderness in my work, but also a boldness that refuses to play small.  As a stage 3c colon cancer survivor, I don’t take a single day for granted. That experience cracked me open and rebuilt me. It taught me how to find light in places many people avoid. It taught me how to live fully, feel deeply, and create from a place that is honest and unfiltered.

I’m also someone who loves to play, transform, and be silly. I’m drawn to characters and costumes.  I love to embody the energy of a clown, because they are disarming, joyful, and a little unpredictable. That spirit lives inside my work too. Bright color, high contrast, emotional depth… a kind of visual alchemy.

My work is about transformation.  My artistic voice is centered around creating light after darkness- meaning confronting the raw parts of being human and reshaping them into something powerful, even beautiful. I create to connect. To awaken. To remind people of their own resilience, their own depth, and their own aliveness.  And sometimes I create unserious work, just to spread happiness.  

I believe creativity is sacred. I believe joy can coexist with grief. I believe we are meant to feel this life in full color.

And through my work, I invite you to step into that with me.

Thanks for being here,

Tracy