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About the Artist
I was a girl growing up, as part of a large family, in a small town in NJ where we summered on the beaches of Long Beach Island and skied in Vermont during the winter breaks. I became inspired by my family and the landscapes around me. I hated having my picture taken, I was the awkward, shy one. When I received my first camera I became the photographer I would take all of the family photos and vacation shots. I would paint it as a girl and photograph it when I got my first camera at 12. These two elements have come together in the era of digital editing to create my style. I am inspired by the small things in life where light, scale, and composition happen. My work is dreamlike yet specific, my photography marries my painterly aesthetic with the soft view of memory. My first piece "The Look" is from a lifeguard race. The athletes were all lined up and ready for the whistle. The engagement I felt from the eyes, stance, the color of the bathing caps, and the excitement to compete. But I wanted this to feel soft so it could be any person from today or 40 years ago competing. Through the development of Photoshop and Lightroom, I create my work through different treatments and actions I have developed to create visual artistry. I approach my work as a painter that has the untraditional elements to create on my computer. As you go through my work some will have my painterly elements others will be unedited photographs that have something I needed to capture, pure.
