Exhibited Pieces

GREAT LAKES SYMBIOFISH

Freehand Watercolor

ArtPrize 2025

(Top 20 Center City)

ArtPrize Edu Magazine 2025

LACA Art Reprize 2025

SouthPrize 2026

Is it a school? Is it a shoal? Our Great Lakes are teeming with abundant life— a beautiful and unique ecosystem balanced harmoniously through companionship, cooperation, and competition. This watercolor creatively explores a symbiotic environment outside the natural order. One that can only be witnessed imaginatively. And yet— isn’t nature known to surprise us?

Fun Facts

-there are 195 fish total (including partial fish)

-these fish were created using 100% free-hand watercolor (no pens, pencils, or other materials were used)

-I painted mostly in the middle of the night (to ensure its safety from my curious kiddos!)

-I had to climb onto the painting in order to reach the edges

-two beloved paint brushes were ruined during the making of this piece (they could never be replaced!)

Fight and flight

Freehand Watercolor

ArtPrize 2026

KCAD Landscape, Apparently 2026

When the survival of one relies on the destruction of another— a paradox is born.

This free-hand watercolor explores the profound complexities of survival displayed throughout nature, the deep realization that more than one truth can be true.