Surrendered Echoes

10/14/2025

02/29/2024

have you heard? There’s a new art gallery coming to downtown Ventura!
I can’t wait to share my perspective of our beautiful city with you!
16 days until you can come!
It will be my great honor to host you there.
Come and see!
Bring all your friends!
Spread the word!
March 16, Saturday, all day!
All glory to King Jesus, the Creator of it all!

08/25/2023

guess where I’m at!!!?
Looking forward to this weekend. This painting will be on display there for the first time, come & see! Love you already San Francisco!!!

08/01/2023

Another view of Catalina Island
“Take Me Away”
30” x 40”

07/06/2023

today I turn 34!! I am so grateful to have had breath for 34 years.
For me art has been synonymous with spiritual formation. My own plans involved hustle-harder-and-scale. I had an encounter with God that changed me. He spoke intimate identity to me in a way that changed my heart. Then He told me to paint.
This thought was completely foreign to my brain.
Since then I have learned..
creating art involves getting quiet, allowing myself to get bored, allowing my mind and body to rest, allowing myself to play, listening to God, being ok with inefficiency, not comparing my perspective with anybody else’s. Choosing to see the greater beauty that co-exists in the place of great pain. Sometimes choosing to create that beauty as an act of defiance against great pain. Believing that God knew what He was talking about when He told me to paint, and facing a blank canvas again.
This is a partial explanation of the way, painting saved my life. God saved my life—but in this colorful, embodied way. I immediately realized, I have nothing to gain from my own ideas, and everything to find in surrender. God gave me a voice with art.
Painting is less about how I make my money and more about how I spend my time. My love language is time—how I spend it reflects my values. For the rest of my days—my mind, my body, my breath, my hands, respond to the Creator who gave me life, and then gave me purpose in such a beautiful way. He is worthy. He is beautiful too.

05/26/2023

“Someone who works with their hands is a laborer. Someone who works with their head is a craftsman. Someone who works with their hands, head, and heart, is an artist.” -St. Francis of Assisi

“A Sunny State of Mind”
24” x 48”

05/13/2023

“Lavender Ventura”
I love this calming perspective of Ventura that highlights the lavender at the Botanical Gardens.
30” x 40”

04/27/2023

install day at the Hall of Justice
“Two Trees”
11 foot long diptych of the Ventura hillsides
I hope this painting sends a message of peace & hope to all of the trauma survivors who enter this room.
Thank you Ventura county for the opportunity!

04/19/2023

Congrats to my collectors 🫶🏻 Catalina Island found a forever home.
Dan commissioned me to make to make this because it is the location he got married. He surprised his wife with it yesterday.
My husband says, “I want to be like Dan.”
What an honor to have a part of their story.