I was born in Tennessee and received my BFA in painting at the Middle Tennessee State University in 2019. During that time, I was fortunate to work as a educational supervisor at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville and as a committee member for the Murfreesboro Art Crawl. I was then accepted for a Graduate Assistant position at  Southern Illinois University in Carbondale where I received a Masters of Fine Art with an emphasis on Painting in 2023. 
         I am currently living in Carbondale, Illinois and running a small art business specializing in oil painting and murals. I have found a great community of artist in the area and have been able to find work as an artist and an educator. 
           My current body of work is introspective of American architypes and their relationship to classical representations of "timeless" emotions - or rather the characteristics that are ever present in people. I am interested in the cyclical nature of history and the connections that can be made between our perception of the current state of the world and historical perceptions recited to us through art.