Studio Table

Where the creatures, experiments, and questionable decisions begin.

This is my Studio Table — the place where materials misbehave, ideas show up uninvited, and half‑formed creatures wander around until they decide what they want to be. Here you’ll find carved shoes, dyed fabrics, stitched experiments, collaborative side quests, and projects that may or may not eventually become “real art.”

Nothing here is finished. Everything is alive. Some of it is weird on purpose.

Active Projects

The Seamstress & The Sea

A collaborative ocean‑themed skirt project with my mother‑in‑law, the seamstress. I’m learning fabric dyeing and painting for the first time, and the dye has opinions. This project lives somewhere between slow fashion, textile art, and mild chaos.

Lesson #1: Wear Gloves. No Blue Hands at Hockey

Lesson #2: Dye is Petty. It does not care about your plans

A white and blue garment hanging on a clothes hanger outdoors, drying on a clothesline on a wooden deck. The background shows a house with a window, trees, and a partly cloudy sky.
A blue fabric garment hanging on a white hanger to dry outside, with a clear plastic container placed underneath, on a colorful mosaic table on a porch. In the background, trees, a street with parked cars, and a partly cloudy sky are visible.

Finished Experiments

Galaxy Bike Shoes

A custom paint job for a friend’s cycling shoes. A tiny mixed‑media adventure that proved shoes make surprisingly good canvases (and surprisingly dramatic ones).

Close-up of a person's feet wearing sneakers, standing next to a bicycle on a grassy area beside a sidewalk.
Black cycling shoes with a galaxy paint splatter pattern and Velcro straps, placed on a white surface.
A cross-section of a tree trunk showing growth rings and rough bark on the outer edge.
A large cross-section of a tree trunk outdoors, with green leaves around it. A person's feet in sandals are visible at the bottom of the image.
Cedar tree round that is carved, burned, stained, and varnished. Contains metal inlay and peacock feathered border

Nautibus

Nautibus was created for the 2nd Annual Art in Nature Walk, a collaboration between the Lee Arts Foundation, Fall City Arts, and North Bend Arts & Industry. This Cedar Carving that taught me more about carving, staining, metal inlay, and woodburning than I expected, and probably more than cedar wanted me to know. My blood, sweat, and tears are quite literally in this piece now; cedar is a beautiful wood, but it has opinions, and it made sure I heard all of them.

It’s currently installed along the Snoqualmie Valley Trail in the Fall City area and available for auction. Nautibus feels right at home out there — a small guardian watching over the path, carrying the story of what happens when you let curiosity, nature, and a slightly chaotic learning curve collide.

Art in Nature Walk 2026

Woodburns

Burned illustrations and motifs based on my original drawings and paintings.

A wooden paddle with a whale and air bubbles burned on it - stained and varnished

Humpback Whale on Paddle - Commissioned

A line burning of a plant with sprawling branches and roots on a wooden surface.

Shel on Cutting Board

A colorful burned turtle design mounted on a wooden jewelry box

Custom Turtle with Color on Jewelry Box (Unfinished)

Wooden plaque with a burned image of a raven on a branch

Raven on Wood Plank

A colorful burned seahorse design mounted on a wooden jewelry box

Custom Seahorse with Colors on Jewelry Box (Unfinished)

Wooden plaque with a burned image of a humpback whale

Humpback Whale on Wood Plank