I love to work with texture and dimension in my oil paintings, and so typically in my work I create layers of collage and fabric on my canvases and panels as my “under-paintings” per se, sealing them and painting the images as the final layers of each piece.  The material for the collage layers comes from found text and images, mostly papers, many of them handmade, as well as other materials I have created myself.  In my work about heritage and generations, my source of fabrics was old clothing that had stories from being lived in and worn.  For The Coming series, I chose royal satins and brocades alongside of rough earthy fabrics and burlap, sewing them together into unified patchworks. 

The vision for my themes is a result of prayer, research, and study, and I find joy in using the resources and abilities God has given me to communicate transcendent reality through images.