My years living and studying in Sweden and Norway were incredibly important in my artistic development. There, I began researching and documenting historic Nordic textile patterns, folk art designs, and domestic artifacts as source material for my creative process.

Today I continue to find and document Nordic textile patterns that I reinterpret and re-contextualize through a mixed media approach. This approach, inspired by Miriam Schapiro’s Femmage, is rooted within the framework of a feminist aesthetic. Instead of using textile materials, however, I am creating mixed media paintings with paper copies of textiles, paper napkins, and knäckebröd (crispbread) wrappers that I collage onto canvas and wooden panels. Then I paint over them, literally retracing and discovering the forms, and adding portraits, flowers, and symbolic patterns with acrylic over the entire surface. Through this process, I explore and celebrate, the intersection of art, craft, and heritage.