WHAT MAKES ME TICK:

I believe we each deserve to be exquisitely happy.

I believe we are meant to think big, to be bold and brave in our lives, and to give ourselves permission live our wildest dreams.

I am just like you. I have fears, I have quirks, I procrastinate. I have good days and bad days. I doubt myself and compare myself, and I celebrate my little successes on the journey through my life and career. We are so much the same.

I make art to help me move through my life. Because I want to connect with myself and learn to deepen my trust in my intuition. The process of creating my work teaches me how to give myself permission to just be ME, and it deepens my understanding of what makes me happy. And I want my work to inspire you to find new levels of bravery, boldness, and happiness in your own life. I want it to make you smile and feel a bit brighter than you did just a moment before.

I believe color can effect our moods in big big ways and that art can speak to us and capture truths and feelings that words simply can't.
I believe surrounding yourself with objects, colors, and patterns that speak to you and that you find beautiful will enhance your life in deeply joyful ways.

From licensed products to objects made in my own studio, my eponymous brand of surface designs and vibrant gift/home products (including my first line of rain boots launched in 2011-- my debut in the world or footwear!) is centered around my daring use of color and quirky & fun pattern sense. My aim? To elicit happiness, play, and light-heartedness in the world through my work and the things I create, and to help you give yourself permission to be supremely, unique YOU, and to live the best life you can possibly imagine, and beyond.

TIDBITS:

• I've never had a "real job".

• I live in Atlanta, Georgia, though I grew up in Boulder, Colorado and went to college in upstate New York.

• I have a BFA in painting and a minor in French. One day I will use that minor when I own a houseboat in Amsterdam and visit Paris regularly.

• For my very first job at age 15 I was a piano duster. Yep, my only duty was to dust the pianos. I remember loving it, but I think I might've just had a crush on a boy who worked there (not as a piano duster.)

• I am left-handed.

• I am thinking of doing yoga teacher training at some point in 2012.

• I didn't see the ocean for the first time until I was 17 years old. (So sad!)

• I have a weirdly morbid imagination which doesn't come through at ALL in my artwork. Aren't you curious what I think about now?

• I dream every night. In vivid color.

• I'm quite unfashionable, and I never go shopping. (I secretly wish I dressed like the people in my illustrations.)

WHO I'VE WORKED WITH:

• T-Mobile
• Paperchase
• TeNeues Publishing
• Case-Mate
• Oopsy Daisy
• Pier 1 Imports
• Landor
• Proctor & Gamble 
• Blend Fabric
• Gina B Designs
• Design Design
• Red Rooster Fabrics
• Carolina Pad
• Storey Publishing
• Andrews McMeel Publishing
• CoasterStone 
• Bedhead PJs
• included in Print & Pattern book
• included in Xeixs Publishing 'Patterns' book
• Fabric Editions
• Agent 18
• Blanket Magazine
• Partial Comfort Productions
• NAATF (National Asian American Theater Festival)

2011 PRESS KIT: