The First Tides
Early works | 2025
A painting of a woman sitting on the beach, gazing at a colorful sunset over the ocean, with her hair flowing and her hands resting on her knees.
"Saltwater Sanctuary" | Miami's beaches have always known me; before the noise, before the unraveling. It holds the sun, the sky, and the breath I forgot I was holding. This is my Saltwater Sanctuary. A place that doesn't ask for anything but presence.
"Let the Colors Dream for You" | I didn’t paint this to be precise. I painted it to pause. This piece isn’t about perfect perspective or realistic proportions. It’s about soft rebellion. The kind where you let the figure stay small so the sea can stay vast. Where the back of a woman becomes an open doorway inviting you to step into stillness, not performance. Her hair isn’t styled. The ropes aren’t even. And still she’s held. By the hammock. By the sky. This is what it looks like when presence wins. When we let go of needing to get it “right” and just let the bright colors lead the way.
"While the Light Unfolded" | She didn’t chase the light. She let it find her curled in softness, bare against the hush of tide and sky. This piece is about stillness, and the quiet kind of healing that happens when no one’s watching. A moment to simply be.
"She was the Bubble and the Light" | Inspired by a photo of me as a child blowing bubbles at the beach, this piece became a quiet journey back to joy. Layer by layer, moment by moment, an exercise in reconnecting with my inner child, the part of me untouched by shame or sorrow. Painting this was a return to her. No past to outrun. No noise to untangle. Just presence. Just me. Raw. Real. Worthy.
Breathing Landscapes
Paintings of sea, land, and city | 2025-2026
A painting of a colorful sky with purple, pink, and blue clouds over a dark ocean with white splashes.
A painting of a sunset over the ocean with pink, purple, and blue hues in the sky and water.
A colorful painting of a sunset over the ocean, with vibrant hues of blue, orange, pink, and purple in the sky and water, featuring waves and clouds.
A painting of the sky with clouds over the ocean with wind ripples on the water surface.
“Before the World Arrives” | She hasn’t been added yet, the figure at the edge of the sand, but I think she’s coming. Sometimes I paint the ocean to remember how it feels to be held without question. This one was born from a moment of quiet and softness.
"Before the World Arrives, She Greets the Quiet" The sky doesn’t rush to bloom. The ocean doesn’t beg to be seen. She learned from them. And so she stands steady, open, radiant, a woman who knows that peace is power.
"Between Masks" | Some days I forget which self I’m wearing. Some days I forget if any of them are mine. I painted her in front of the chaos, a fallen angel, caught between who the world expects her to be and who she actually is. Masking to belong, unmasking to breathe. Each change blurs the edges a little more.
"Writing my Own Story" Series | These two pieces, gold and silver, survivor and shapeshifter, completely transform in direct sun. What was subtle becomes radiant. What was quiet becomes undeniable. They’re part of the same storm. Painted from different pieces of me. One born of grief. The other, of defiant joy. But both say the same thing: I get to write my story.
“Scars into Brushstrokes” | Some stories aren’t told in words. They’re told in layers. In textures. In colors mixed with memory. This piece poured out of me in the midst of anger, clarity, and a reclamation of self. I started with chaos, using paint and: berries, cotton, twine, dying flowers, seed pods, and then she appeared. Not soft, but sovereign. Not broken, but becoming. They tried to write my story. But I turned the scars into brushstrokes and made something beautiful.
"She Came Out Dancing" | In full color. In full control. With glitter in her scars and a beat in her chest. Because healing doesn’t always look quiet. Sometimes, it struts. Sometimes, it sways. Sometimes, it storms the canvas in bare feet without no shits to give
"On the Edge" | This piece was inspired by that horrific limbo when you are nauseous and want to vomit to get rid of the discomfort but would also rather die than vomit... and all the emotions in between
"A Lifeline in the Blaze"
"Unmapped Light" is a journey through instinct, shadow, and the unexpected paths hope takes. This series began with a question: what if I just let the process lead? Each piece explores how light moves; not in straight lines, but through curves and chaos. This is a map drawn by feeling. A celebration of permission, play, and the grace that comes when I allow myself to stop needing all the answers.
The Shape of Thought
Abstract works in color and form
"Light Finds Its Angles" | It doesn’t always come through clean lines or perfect moments. Sometimes, it breaks. Reflects. Finds you anyway.
"Curves of Light" | This final piece is a quiet reminder that resolution doesn't require rigidity. Sometimes, it looks like letting go. Letting it flow. Like texture, like instinct, like trust in the process. The light didn’t follow a straight line; it curved, doubled back, meandered. But it never disappeared.
"Bubbles & Blondes" Series
"Bubbles at the Beach"
"Bubbles in the Park"
"Bubbles in the Dessert"
"The Vivid Series" | Three pieces. Three daydreams. Each one rooted in something real but stretched by color, emotion, and imagination. This series poured out without planning, just brush to canvas and feeling to form. Bold, instinctive, and a little chaotic...just like the best kind of dreaming (and just like me)
"Cafecitos and Periquitos" | Part I. Vivid Series.
"Dress-shirt with a View" | Part II. Vivid Series.
"Soaking Suds" | Part III. Vivid Series.
"The Weathered Heart" | A love story dissolving in space dust | Emotional weather, captured in layers. A soul untangled. A love that wasn’t really love. Just something familiar dressed as safety
"Storm Lock" | Turbulence disguised as tenderness
Contact, but only with her own rising | "Contact Light" | A hush between weather systems.
| "Atmospheric Fade" | She exits orbit
"The Space She Claimed" | She needed no witness; only breath, only stillness, only the pulse of her own becoming. This is not surrender to anyone else. This is what it looks like to come home to the body that stayed when everyone else left. She is not waiting. She is waking. She is hers.
"Not Yours to Hold" | She is not art for your pleasure. She does not ache to be chosen. She is the choosing. Untamed, unhidden, utterly whole.
"Complete Madness" | This piece was created without inspiration but ended up cycling back to a poem I wrote months prior. Magically, I was able to visually capture the piece I wrote describing the devastating vertigo created by concurrently suffering from debilitating depression and severe anxiety.
"Splinters of Silence" | Carved from reclaimed wood, stained with pain, and layered in acrylics and truth, this piece was born from rage I could no longer carry in my body. The handprint at the throat represents the invisible grip of years spent silenced, diminished, manipulated, and erased. The phrases etched into the background are the soundtrack of surviving in a world that tries to tame and shame women into silence. This was never about pretty art. It was about making the damage visible. About honoring the emotional wreckage as real. About taking back the power of my voice: in texture, in color, in every splinter.
"Behind the Green Eyes" | This piece is quieter. Not because it hurts less but because this kind of silence was trained. Perfected. Expected. She was never allowed to scream. So she learned to hold it in behind steady eyes, a still face, a single tear she didn’t dare let fall. Don’t mistake composure for peace. This is the second in a series about voice, erasure, and survival.
“Portal of Pages” | A girl, a book, and a door of light. When the world was too loud, she stepped between the shelves and disappeared into stories that saw her, saved her, and stitched her back together. Even in the darkest moments, fiction never failed her. The library was her portal. The words were her safe space.
"My happy place" | Made on a broken-down Trader Joe's paper bag, with the last of my paint and random supplies I had, and yet somehow, this became my favorite creation. Sometimes, you don’t need perfection. Just a quiet space, a good soak, and the audacity to make beauty out of scraps.
"Beautiful Mess" | Some canvases come blank. Others come from the trash. This 4'x3' beauty was rescued, reused, and reborn with a neon sunset, blooming wildflowers, and zero pressure to be “perfect.” It’s not polished... it’s playful. And honestly? That might be my favorite kind of painting. Here’s to second chances, bold colors, and art that makes your heart smile.
"Sunset Silhouette Series" | From palm-lined boulevards to desert dreams and mountain stillness, each canvas captures a California sunset through my eyes as a Miami girl learning the language of new landscapes. Same sun, different shadows.
"Coastal to Concrete" | From Miami’s swaying palms to LA’s sky-touching cousins. This piece is a love letter to the trees that lined both my childhood beaches and now my freeway commutes. Palm trees, but make it bi-coastal.
"Quiet Altitude" | Inspired by the pine trees in Angeles Forest and Big Bear, this one is for the chill that hits just before dusk, the hush between the mountains, and the peace that sneaks up on you.
"Still Wild" | This silhouette came from a memory in Joshua Tree where the sky looked like it was lit from inside. Somewhere between surreal and sacred.
“Tides of Light” – A Series | Three versions of the same shoreline. Three chapters in a story told by the sea. First Light – soft beginnings; Golden Hour – a moment held in warmth; Last Light – the hush of ending
“First Light” | The beginning of something, soft and dreamlike. The start of the day, or the start of a dream? “First Light” captures the moment the world stretches awake, painted in pastels and promise.
“Golden Hour” | That golden-pink space between day and night, presence and memory. That hush before goodbye, when the sun leans low and the waves soften. “Golden Hour” is about lingering, on the shore, in a memory, in a feeling you don’t want to lose just yet.
“Last Light” | Closing chapter. The tide is still talking, even after the light has gone. “Last Light” holds the weight and peace of endings, the kind that don’t need words, just waves.
"Early Moonrise"
"Stillness with Salt"
A silhouette of a telephone pole and wires against a sky with pastel pink, gray, and blue hues, with trees in the background.
Nighttime view of a stormy sky showing dark clouds and lightning; a silhouette of a balcony with furniture and a palm tree are visible in the foreground.
“Walking Home Through The Jungle, With Love at His Side” | For my neighbor, the father who walks these streets with love beside him. A familiar corner, a quiet night, a Dad and his boys walking beneath halos of streetlight. This piece was inspired by a father's love, the way light softens everything after sunset, and our neighborhood, Baldwin Village, The Jungles.
"Held by the Moonlight" | This tree... I passed it often while walking the dogs. I’d always stop, tilt my head back, and just breathe it in. There’s something sacred about how its branches stretch toward the moon.
"Stars Over San Luis"
"LA Traffic" | No caption necessary
"For Those Who Never Truly Return" | PTSD from active military duty is a wound that never heals. This piece was done in phases. The first: the bloody, violent scars left from war. The second: the bright flowers growing in front of the war scene as a symbol of hope and life, not erasing but easing some of the horror.
Abstract impressionistic painting of a nude woman with long blond hair, sitting with her back to the viewer, surrounded by dark and colorful swirling textures.
A colorful abstract art piece featuring various shades of green, pink, purple, yellow, and brown with layered textured paint strokes and splatters.
Abstract acrylic painting with swirling, colorful strokes in green, blue, pink, orange, purple, and gray, creating an energetic, vibrant composition.
Abstract painting with vibrant colors including blue, orange, green, purple, and white, featuring a central figure of a white girl with long hair, viewed from behind, surrounded by a swirl of colors and brushstrokes.
A vibrant abstract painting featuring bright pinks, blues, greens, and orange hues with dynamic streaks and splatters of paint.
A colorful abstract painting with swirling lines and vibrant colors, including highlights of blue, red, yellow, and purple, with a faint silhouette of a person in a dynamic pose on the right side.
Abstract painting with vibrant swirling colors including pink, blue, green, yellow, black, and white on canvas.
An abstract painting with vibrant, swirling colors including red, yellow, purple, green, and blue. There is a small, beige, silhouette of a woman sitting amidst the colorful background, with her arms wrapped around her knees.
Abstract painting with vibrant, swirling colors including green, yellow, purple, blue, red, and white, with some textured areas and small bubble-like circles.
Abstract colorful painting with swirls, bubbles, and bold vibrant streaks of paint in shades of blue, yellow, pink, purple, orange, and green.
An abstract painting predominantly in various shades of blue with some green and white streaks, featuring a small girl with long blonde hair standing amidst the swirling colors.
Abstract painting with vibrant swirls of blue, green, yellow, pink, and hints of white and black, creating a dynamic and colorful composition.
Abstract colorful painting with a figure of a woman with blonde hair on the bottom right, surrounded by dark, vibrant, swirling colors.
A colorful, abstract artwork featuring a humanoid figure with long hair, reaching across a vibrant, chaotic background of swirling colors and shapes.
Abstract acrylic painting with vibrant greens, blues, reds, and browns, featuring swirling patterns and layered textures.
Abstract painting with swirling dark background, pink, white, and brown textured paint, purple lines, and a small blonde figure with pink hair near the bottom left.
Abstract street art with green, pink, and blue spray paint, featuring a yellow lion face in the lower left corner on a rough textured surface.
Abstract colorful painting with various lines, scribbles, and textures, including a small shape resembling a shoe at the bottom center.
Abstract colorful painting featuring a central female figure with long blonde hair sitting with knees drawn up and arms wrapped around legs, surrounded by chaotic scribbles and splashes of various colors.
Abstract artwork with flowing, marble-like swirls in shades of purple, blue, green, and teal, with a small painted portrait of a woman with long hair at the bottom center.
Abstract colorful painting with a pink mermaid figure with long hair lying on her stomach and looking at colorful rainbow-like streaks.
Abstract painting with vibrant swirls of color, including yellow, red, green, purple, black, and teal, with a small realistic figure of a person with long hair sitting and curled up, partially visible on the left side.
An abstract painting with swirling blue, black, white, and yellow-orange colors.
Abstract colorful painting with swirling black, pink, blue, green, and yellow paints on canvas.
A colorful abstract painting with vibrant reds, blues, greens, and purples, featuring a small, sketch-like figure of a person with long hair, standing on a staircase or platform in the lower center.
Bright abstract painting with bold orange, red, green, blue, and yellow paint splashes and strokes on a dark blue background.
Abstract colorful background with swirling, iridescent colors including blue, green, pink, red, and black, resembling a fluid or acrylic paint mix.
An abstract painting with a mix of vibrant and dark colors, including reds, greens, blues, purples, and blacks. The painting features swirling and dripping paint with textured layers, creating a chaotic and dynamic composition.
Abstract painting with swirling black, orange, yellow, green, purple, white, and blue colors creating dynamic movement.
Colorful abstract painting with swirling vibrant colors including reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, and purples, featuring fluid, curving lines and patterns.
Abstract image with numerous intertwining, neon-like lines on an orange background, resembling a complex web or network.
Abstract colorful artwork featuring a small sketch of a woman sitting with her knees pulled to her chest, surrounded by swirling lines, vibrant colors, and textured background.
Abstract colorful painting of a horse with a rainbow-colored mane on a blue background.
Abstract colorful artwork with swirling patterns of vibrant colors including green, blue, yellow, orange, pink, and purple, with a small figure of a girl with blonde hair in the center.
Multicolored abstract artwork featuring an illustration of animal character playing a drum set, with vibrant, swirling, and layered colors.
Abstract painting with dark background, green palm leaves, yellow and green splashes, and a pink figure at the center.
Abstract street art mural featuring a stylized female figure with yellow hair, surrounded by red graffiti and white abstract lines.
Abstract colorful painting with swirls of yellow, pink, purple, blue, and green.
Abstract colorful painting featuring swirling brushstrokes in reds, blues, greens, and purples with a small, faint figure of a person sitting on the ground.
Abstract colorful painting with a central figure of a person sitting, surrounded by vibrant splashes of paint in various colors, including red, green, blue, pink, and yellow.