About Me

I am a Catholic Christian, a wife and a stay-at-home mom in Pittsburgh, and I am grateful for my husband who makes it possible for me to be home with my son (4) and two daughters (3 and 1) every day. I received a Bachelor of Arts degree in art and creative writing with concentrations in illustration and fiction at Carnegie Mellon. My experiences with the art department there were not conducive to thoughts of a career in the arts. With the pressures of creating abstract work, installations, multimedia pieces and other non-conventional forms of art behind me, there is now time (barring being a full-time mom) to get back to my first love-- Photorealism. My hope is to one day illustrate children's books, perhaps with the help of my children.