Artist Statement
I am passionate about finding the life lessons shown in people’s hands. My realistic oil paintings are larger than life. They showcase the hard work, pain, passion, and love of Everyday Legends.
When I was a young girl, an old woman came to live with us. She was dying. After school, I would race to her room so we could watch her favorite soap opera. I would know her for only a little over a year, but we had a unique and special bond. Many years after her death, when I was an adult, I was shocked to learn that she was my biological grandmother. Her beautiful hands showed me a love I would never be able to return, and inspired my current passion.
The worn hands that I paint hold more stories than can be written in words. It’s as if every wrinkle holds a secret, and every scar a lesson. Respectfully, through my art, I wish to show the beauty of this older generation, almost gone, through their hands.