Ghost Ship Gallery

I earned my education at the University of MN, Moorhead, graduating with both a BFA in painting and a teaching degree. Since that time, my work has included various forms of drawing and painting but today I am almost entirely a landscape painter. I find country subject matter and paint it with a contemporary approach.

I paint most weekends and any day I’m not teaching or parenting. My studio is located in my home in the great little artist community of New London, MN where I live with my husband, my two sons, and two unruly pets.

My work focuses on landscape imagery relating to rural communities. It is a visual story about the places located in the middle of nowhere. Agricultural spaces inform my art practice which usually, hopefully, ends with a painting that shows movement and color combinations that speak to the idea of the working or industrial landscape. I also want the viewer to get a sense of the smallness of humanity and the largeness of the natural environment, particularly the open prairies and the solitary spaces we find in the Midwest. It’s a point of view that I think is shared with many people who live outside of populated places. Describing what that is exactly is both a personal account and a collective understanding of where we live. 

The idea of a landscape, and the stories that go with it, have always been something personal to me but what I’ve recently realized is that the places I paint aren’t really just mine. They are definitely shared and are part of the conversation of rural community.