Upon entering adulthood and after becoming a mother, I lost my connection to art. With the demand of being a wife and a working mother with a high stress job - as a 911 dispatcher - I eventually felt lost and unsure of who I was as a person. I became depressed, anxious, and generally unhappy with my life. I started thinking back to when I felt the happiest and what I was doing during that time. That reflection process led me back to art.

My paintings are a collection of portraits, figures and partial figures. As subjects, I am drawn to homeless people, street musicians, or psychics. My painting is heartfelt and expressionistic, to convey and translate the personality and emotion of the person - or about the person - that I am inspired by.

I hold optimism that humans will continue to strive on becoming more empathetic towards each other’s religions, cultures, values, and personal relationships is linked to her artistic process, which comes also from deep passion for preserving the environment.

How Heart Thou’s mission: to support causes using art as a fundraising incentive.

Imagining these collages are borne from a playdate between Franca Sozzani, René Magritte and myself: it’s cut-and-paste fun, not to be taken too seriously and yet deeply rewarding. In an evermore digital world, I enjoy the tactile process.

We often generate and evaluate ideas based on what we know. When we use only what we know as the base to create from, we exclude a lot of people.