Palo Santo Charcoal and Conté on paper. 2025.
18”x24”
Charcoal and Conté on paper. 14”x17”
From nature we are created, nourished and to it we shall return. When we care for nature and live with it, thrive with it— it is self-love. We are caring not just for our environment, but ourselves. As much as humans have tried to separate themselves from their roots and to convince themselves they are above and in control of it, our roots will claim us once again. We are not beyond nature. We are a part of it. We are one.
Charcoal on paper. 2024
When you need peace and quiet, a moonlit night in the forest by a small body of water can be incredibly calming. Despite that many creatures would be active during a full moon, it's a beautiful sight.
Pairs with Sia's "My Love."
Charcoal on paper. 03/2024
9”x12”
The Casket Girls are a famous legend in New Orleans, Louisiana. Young girls shipped from France to New Orleans, turned into vampires on their voyage over. One of the first vampire legends of the Crescent City, the Ursuline Convent attic is where they were supposedly kept upon their arrival.
In my depiction, I like to imagine them discovering their new fate as a strength in a time when women were treated like nothing more than a role. Young women who had no say in their own lives now had the strength to fight for themselves.
Charcoal on paper. 2023.
It may be small, but worth the risk. We reach for what we love and desire, brave and beautiful in the plight we face. Successful in the efforts we raise. With the prize, fly high and away.
Charcoal on paper. 2023
Burning out from working too hard.
Two hands, they say, as if once it
melts away, we won't be left
in the dark.
Charcoal on paper. 2023.
Fountain from a property on Dauphine in New Orleans was very inspiring for this Pirate's Alley artist. Beautiful old treasures here and there hint at a history whose makes can be counted like rings of a tree or troughs of a fountain.
Charcoal on paper. 2023.
Every creature strives for beauty, even those we think would never want nor care. For beauty is illuminated like nothing else.
8”x10” Conté on paper. 2023 SOLD
The plants need light to produce oxygen, and the flame needs oxygen to survive. Such as art needs creativity, while creativity needs inspiration. The cycle to create art is giving and taking.
Approx. 6”x8” charcoal on Medeovalis paper. 2023.
SOLD. Prints available.
One of my all-time favorite books is Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. I am a phan!
It makes me sob every time. I love the story and the way it almost demands humanity, care, and understanding for those who are so different that society exiles them to solitude and loneliness. It is heartbreaking and my holiday book (and Valentine’s read as well). Beautiful in its creativity and imagery, its depth and exploration into what makes a monster.
Books have always been a love of mine and inspiring to me. I hope you all enjoy this piece as much as I enjoyed drawing it that night.
May 2020. Original available for purchase.
Honorable Mention in Kennesaw State University’s Virtual Pin Up Show, March 2021.
Charcoal on Paper. 2020
Of all things fragile in this universe, time doesn’t seem to be one of them. Only those subjected to time. The things that change the most are those in stages of life. Some appearing faster than others; plants to humans for example.
Though, where the sepal of a flower my wither and shrink, the flower continues to blossom and grow. Alive and well. Life is fragile- relationships, memories, our numbered days. Time is eternal. Time is a bookmark in the novels we live. Thrive and wither away. Time will remember you as it sees you in the next living display.
Original available for purchase.
Charcoal on paper. 2023.
When caught in the storm, the rain keeps are heads down to focus on the crashing waves below and the peril they offer. With our eyes cast down, we often fail to see just how close to the silver lining we may be. Keep reaching.
Charcoal on paper. 2024. 12” x 18”
Gargoyles on a night flight under the moon.
SOLD
Graphite. 9”x12”. 2022. Prints available.
"If I had a heart that beat, a life force like yours begging for me would be what broke it."
Death is one of the last mercies of this realm, for even when we die, we are not alone. He is there. I think when we beg him to claim us and extinguish our light it saddens him like nothing else.
Graphite on paper. 2024
A woman or ghost,
alone with no throne
she stands at the forefront of right
to create a space of life.
A woman or ghost,
head of a home
she enlivens it and breathes life
into bare bones.
A ghost once a woman
she left behind her soul
in a place now cold and alone.
A place of wood, metal, and stone.
Remember her as she was,
remember who she was,
for she never shall be again.
A ghost of a woman unknown.
A spirit of a home,
which no one now lives in.
Empty, a shell,
it stands in quiet solitude,
awaiting its heart’s return.
In shadows you can see her,
a part of the vessel that whispers her name.
In hallways fit for a queen.
It chants, it begs to
feel alive again.
“Return! Return and light my hearth once more!
For your absence is a cruelty I
can bear no more.”
Charcoal on paper. 2023.
Inspired by Chapter 2 from "Lips on Fire Like it's Arson" by insfiration on AO3; first paragraph.
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9”x12” Charcoal and Conté on paper. 2023
Graphite on paper. 2022.
SOLD. Prints available.
18’”x 24” Charcoal on Paper. 2023
Knowledge of our ancestors lost and reclaimed. It brings me peace to feel so connected with knowledge I regain. Exploring more into the plants and crystals we can use to increase our health and keep us safe.
Sometimes it is all too tempting to make an island of ourselves and wallow in the dark. Sometimes it feels good to just give in to whatever is reaching to drag us down.
We tell ourselves we see something, knowing it is something else.
Sometimes we are tempted to just give up. We make ourselves so uncomfortable we believe we don't deserve to feel and be better.
However, we do.
So let yourself be miserable while you need it. Like medicine, though, you can only take it for a little while. After that, get better. Be better. Do better.
Clear the fog of your mind and breathe.
In and out. In and out.
Songs I listened to: •You Don't Know-- Katelyn Tarver •Hurts Like Hell-- Fleurie •Skylar Grey-- Words •Don't Deserve You-- Plumb •Cut-- Plumb •Human-- Christina Perri
Graphite on Paper. 2019
9”x12” Charcoal on paper. 2023.
10”x8” graphite on toned paper. 2023
Inspired by the bar at “The Apothecary” on St. Peter street in New Orleans, LA.
Sometimes we must find that we ourselves possess the light to drive away our own darkness, held in that which uplifts us.
Charcoal on toned paper. 2020.
Reference photo by Zylah, courtesy of her and the model Sybian.
In our minds we lock away
The monsters of our thoughts and fears.
Closets we keep and never clean,
Locks with rusted and missing keys.
They crawl, they creep,
Some eventually get free.
They can haunt us,
They can scare us.
Some may even hurt us.
Our demons and ghosts.
Do they ever really leave?
Run and hide,
Or jump out and play.
Those bumps in the night,
Friend or foe,
Angel or fae....
Colored pencil and light inktense wash on paper.6.5"x 9.25". 2020.
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Walnut ink on watercolor paper. 2022. 9”x12”
Tapping into the code we all have within us to connect with all other things of this planet we live on. Frequencies and intuition guiding us to explore and relate to the elements.
“A mind perceived as frail is a mind which has yet to blossom and bloom.
Encompassed, it is protected, yet sheltered to the point of becoming naïve. Only once in full, withered bloom may it finally be free.”
Pitt Pens and dip pen on bristol. 2019.
Prints available for purchase.
Original SOLD.
“She collected feathers in hopes to someday fly.
To find her dreams beyond her mind.”
Graphite on paper. 5/2020
So often I lose myself to daydreams and although many of the things I imagine are not possible in this world it makes me so happy that I can see them. We fly when we gather enough feathers, enough strength to create the realities we want to see. We soar and get an aerial view of what this world can take; what it can do. Do you see a bigger picture?
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