I am an artist, songwriter, former optician, and lifelong maker living in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

My work is shaped by a life spent moving across the country, from the rocky coast of Maine to the deserts of Arizona, the rivers of Montana, and eventually the Southern Appalachians. Along the way, I have collected stories, landscapes, objects, and ways of seeing that continue to find their way into everything I make.

Working primarily in cyanotype, paper, photography, and mixed media, I am drawn to the intersection of memory and material. Leaves, flowers, tools from my jewelry bench, old eyewear, handwritten notes, and found objects often become part of the work. I am interested in the traces we leave behind and the quiet beauty hidden within ordinary things.

The name Soft Cut Studio reflects a belief that life changes us not only through dramatic moments, but through small, almost invisible ones. A conversation. A season. A loss. A piece of light falling across a table.

When I’m not in the studio, you’ll usually find me spending time with my daughter, writing songs on a baritone ukulele, cooking something comforting, reading, or wandering riverbanks and back roads in search of things worth noticing. I share my home with my family, Banjo the dog, Poochie and Sassy the cats, and a guinea pig named Kevin.

At its heart, this work is an attempt to preserve evidence of being here at all. Not just the beauty of the natural world, but the beauty of paying attention to it.