About Me
I’m a Philadelphia native who loves to create artwork with vibrant colors, bold shapes and playful compositions. My mother was a textile designer who ran a studio in New York’s garment district, and my father was a silk painter and had a gallery in Norristown, PA. Growing up surrounded by their work, I think I always knew I’d end up here, even if I didn’t take the most direct path.
I spent the early years of my career in fashion editorial and visual merchandising before joining the family business, where I painted original pieces on silk for fashion houses like Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, Tommy Bahama, Vera Wang and Norma Kamali.
At the end of 2016, I left the fashion world to start a family and have since replanted my roots in Media, PA, alongside my husband, Jason, our two young daughters, and my father, Han.
It’s here that I’ve found my way back to making art.
About My Art
I paint to work through what words can’t quite reach. My work primarily moves between two languages: the floral, which is a product of the discipline of pattern play I learned as a textile painter, and the abstract, which I turn to when I’m chasing something that doesn’t have a literal form, such as a memory or a feeling.
I didn’t choose these styles so much as discover them over time. Intuitive painting, negative space, and color are my primary vocabulary, and a lot of what ends up on the canvas or paper is shaped by things I didn’t set out to create — motherhood, loss, the experience of moving between cultural identities. I used to think of these as separate from my subject matter, but now I understand they are the subject matter, even when the work looks purely abstract.
When I stepped away from the fashion industry and became a mother, it took me years to find my way back to the studio. When I did, I realized that everything I’d absorbed — the discipline, the freedom of paint, the creative process itself — had all been waiting for me.