I use the visual language of the American West to show how work shapes people, place, and time. I paint cowgirls, ranch hands, animals, and landscapes as working subjects—not as nostalgia or symbols, but as lived experience.
My work is informed by my family’s homesteading history in Glacier National Park and by raising a family in rural Montana among working ranches and local industries. Past and present exist side by side in these environments, where ways of life are maintained through daily labor.
Quilt patterns and Western forms reflect the work that sustains rural households and communities. They reference the domestic and material labor that supports life on the land.
I work in oil, cyanotype, and mixed media to balance durability and vulnerability. I am interested in how work becomes tradition, how labor carries knowledge, and how ways of life continue through practice.
Represented By:
Manifestations Gallery, Eureka, MT
The Cowboy Emporium Fine Art Gallery, Cheyenne, WY
Currently on view at:
MoNA Museum of Northwest Art, WA
CM Russell Museum, MT
Calgary Stampede, AB, Canada
Sears Museum, UT
APHA, TX
Sedona Art Center, AZ
Previously shown at:
Big Sky Arts Museum, MT
Yellowstone Art Museum, MT
ZAAC, MT
Carbon City Arts Guild, MT
