Artist and muralist in Columbus, Ohio
🎨 For this type of work, I start with a photograph and then draw over it using a software called Procreate. I key into the emotions (mostly joy) of the piece and draw objects, colors, and concepts that resonate with the original image. As a former therapist, I enjoy digging beneath the surface and pulling out things that may not have been seen before.
I have dreams of wise ancestors visiting me with their faces painted blue.
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2020
This little guy loves Puffin Rock, his hammerhead shark stuffie, and anything sea related! I incorporated those into this portrait.
2021 - Kate captured this woman standing in water, and I digitally drew over it to create a dark and magical environment. The idea was to highlight the duality of being grounded in the body, while at the same time experiencing the etheric and mystical realm in the sky.
Original photography by Kate Sweeney, which I digitally drew overtop of.
2021
My son in 2020
I was given this photograph to draw over, with the information that Rowen and his grandpa (Grumpy) love to eat cinnamon swirl bread together. Also that Rowen loves trucks.
🎨I resonate more with colors and images than I do with words, so I feel a great catharsis in painting walls with my own personal language. It is the only time that I truly feel able to communicate what’s inside of me.
🎨My dad has helped me on almost every mural I’ve worked on, so I want to thank him here! And thanks Caitlin Hay and all my friends and family who’ve volunteered their time and expertise.
🎨Many of the murals on this page were done with, and for, Columbus Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS). This organization is doing amazing things for the ever-growing population of refugees and immigrants in Ohio. Please check out their website https://www.crisohio.org/ and consider donating to fund more meaningful projects like the murals below titled ‘CRIS’!
Dough Mama Restaurant in Clintonville
Pelotonia Headquarters, Broad Street
8 months pregnant here. Note to former self: wear more supportive shoes.
Ohio State University Medical Center
Painted in my father-in-law’s new barn/workshop (thanks, Robb)
In collaboration with other local muralists!
I use a projector to outline my designs.
This was a community mural in which members of the community signed up to help scrub the wall clean, trace the outline of the mural, paint, take photographs, and help clean up. All murals with CRIS were done in a paint-by-numbers fashion to make it easy for community members (including children) to be a part of the event.
Fouse Elemetary School
Fouse Elementary School
Students and their parents came out eager to paint on paint day.
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Casey and me, married October 2016.
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Commission
2015
Featured on the cover of Columbus Refugee and Immigration Services’s workbook, and Wonderfilled Magazine.
2017
2010
Based on a dream I had.
2011
2017
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2014
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This piece was made while contemplating the pain and beauty that hold the power to fracture us at our core.
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