Trauma, Healing & the Making of Art

Art found me at a turning point. While navigating my own healing journey in therapy, I was drawn first to collage — the act of cutting, arranging, and reassembling fragments felt like a natural language for processing what words alone couldn't hold. Painting followed, and with it a deeper sense of possibility.

When COVID brought the world to a standstill, my practice intensified. I spent hours cutting and assembling works, layering paint, and weaving in photographs and vintage postcards to create pieces that felt both intimate and timeless. That period of stillness became unexpectedly generative — my work took off, and I began to understand art not just as expression, but as a form of survival.

For me, making art is a compulsion as much as a calling. It is how I work through things — grief, uncertainty, the weight of the world — and over time, my collage practice has grown and evolved into something increasingly rich and layered. What began as a personal act of healing has become a window into something universal: the human need to make meaning out of broken pieces.

Below is a selection of work from the past five or more years.

Featured Work