Watercolor and Asemic Writing in Ink

I'm a Baltimore based artist whose primary work is training resident spiritual care practitioners at The Johns Hopkins Academic Medical Center. My art, gifted to patients and chaplain residents alike, is also featured in local coffee shops and two exhibits in Baltimore this summer: one in Fells Point and another in the Bromo Arts District.

Each of my pieces features Asemic writing and vibrant, abstract watercolors. My art is a way for me to process the loss and pain that comes with work as a hospital chaplain educator. I've come to believe that there's an inexorable connection between pain and beauty.
I'm fascinated by a new field, neuroaesthetics, that posits that making and beholding art is healing. That's why I make art and encourage my residents, and the patients they serve, to make art.