Artist Statement
Art expands my capacity to communicate and provides a new way to interact with an audience.
Despite the abstract style I’ve adopted, my approach straddles the intersection of art and design.
The artist exists to express and interpret, and the role of the designer is to solve problems. Empowered by screen printing, acrylic paint, paper and wood, I designed a body of artwork and a conceptual framework to solve a problem: getting people to interact with art and explore what their interpretations might mean.
Nurturing a more open-ended and reflective side of myself through art has been powerful. It’s been a useful lesson in embracing creative surprises, and a soothing emotional outlet. It’s my goal to share this healing experience through my work.
My Artistic Journey
From the first pull of the screen printing squeegee, to covering the walls of local businesses and coverage on the news.
Fall 2023Screen Printing
I learned how to screen print at the legendary Iskra Print Collective in Burlington, Vermont, just a few blocks from my home. The 2023 Winter Class Showcase was the first time I showed artwork publicly.
Working with a physical medium was a revelation for my creative process, and allowed me to experiment with analog textures and gradients that I had only been reproducing digitally thus far in my design career.
Dec 2023-Sept 2025Rorschach Tests for How Much Fun You’re Having
The first body of artistic work I created, “Rorschach Tests for How Much Fun You're Having” speaks in loose, flowing, and expressive forms that encourage and invite interpretation.
The process begins with an open-ended exploration of simplified contours and negative space by digitally drawing abstract forms that I’ve come to colloquially refer to as blobs.
Once the blobs have been massaged into something that evokes meaning, I employ a consistent visual language of basic shapes, forms, and weaving lines in a larger more complex piece to communicate my interpretation of the distilled form.
After screen printing the more complex composition, I also print the singular form, or blob, that inspired the composition as a white print on various colors of paper. These “ink blobs” if you will, are archived as a corresponding Rorschach Test for How Much Fun You're Having, as a nod to my often-playful interpretations.
Whenever possible, the two corresponding pieces are displayed together, to encourage and reinforce the idea that we all hold our own interpretations and understanding of art.
Over the course of a year and a half, I chose 26 blobs to make corresponding screen printed compositions and Rorschach Tests for How Much Fun You’re Having.
Hearing different interpretations of these blobs during markets and shows has been one of the most rewarding and fulfilling parts of my artistic journey thus far.
Summer 2025Artist-in-Residence
I was selected to be the Artist-in-Residence at Generator Makerspace in Burlington, Vermont for the summer of 2025. It was a remarkable experience that empowered me to create in new mediums.
I learned to make use of a wood shop, vinyl cutter and CO2 laser cutter. I assembled the complete Rorschach Tests for How Much Fun You’re Having for the first time, and installed an interactive exhibit titled ‘it takes all kinds’ throughout the space for Art Hop 2025.
OngoingBuns & Blobs
Over the last year, I’ve installed over 50 pieces of multimedia art into Haymaker Bun Company’s Burlington location in the Soda Plant. It’s an ongoing phenomenon that I’ve dubbed “Buns and Blobs.”
It’s been a joy and a privilege to make a pillar of the local business community more vibrant and welcoming with my art. I’ve made multiple pieces inspired by the Haymaker brand to adorn the space.
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Photos by Patricia Trafton
Press & Other Places You May Have Seen My Work
Coverage & Community-
Local Burlington news outlet did a weekend feature on Buns & Blobs, my art installation at Haymaker Bun Company:
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I had three places on display in Devil Takes a Holiday in downtown Burlington, Vermont from April - August 2025.
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I had five pieces on display in the Lounge above Nectar’s in downtown Burlington, Vermont from September 2024 until their fateful closing in July 2025.
Commissions & Collaborations
i can’t get a word in edgewise with you & i would never want to!
I only recently heard this turn of phrase for the first time, and I didn’t get it. Still don’t, really. Is it edgy to enjoy when people have a lot to say? Reciprocity is important, but so is passion! If questions are the currency of conversation, a long answer is the bank!
& I prefer to surround myself with people who I can bank on to be transparent and expressive. That’s why I made this four color screenprint on a bunch of different colors of 12x12” cardstock with a ton of different gradients and variations. Long live the yap!
This piece has been displayed in various businesses around town through @seabavt as well as at @generatorvt during my residency, and now still on display & available at @haymakerbunsbtv !
Framed prints are in a black glass frame that will be shipped with ample packaging to arrive safely.
Three color screen print on various shades of 8.5x11” & 11x14” paper. The bigger prints are on a discontinued, shiny deep green colored paper called ‘abyss’ from a since-shuddered Irish paper mill. Really cool effect you gotta see in person 👀 & as always, lots of fun, unique gradients/ variations in each print.
This drawing is from 2022, but my grandma requested it as a screen print for her 100th birthday. So I’m calling this one commissioned by my ancestors!
Framed prints are hinge mounted with acid-free tape on acid-free foam core, atop navy or bright orange card stock in a white glass frame 11×14” that will be shipped with ample packaging to arrive safely.