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Emerging Artist: Kirkwood Community College
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Emerging Artist: Kirkwood Community College

Emerging Artist
I primarily work with acrylic paint, relief printmaking on paper and textiles, and 3D elements such as foraged bones. I am inspired by nature, horror, punk/alternative culture, and anything spooky.

Emerging Artist
I tend to create artwork of animals and nature, especially of peculiar or oddity-esque themes. Anomalies, oddities, zoology, psychology, naturalistic illustration, scientific illustration, editorial illustration, neurodiversity, the world around me, my pets, and so much more are all things I admire and am consistently inspired by. I am inspired by even the smallest things in life, too, and I enjoy taking things that most of us tend to overlook and creating a version of them within my art that gives them another meaning. I enjoy finding and creating hidden themes, symbolisms, and motifs. I love trying new things and love creating series of pieces or chaotic varieties.

My process involves reconditioning and hand-sculpting unheated silver flatware which I then craft together with glass beads, antique bottles, crystals & artifacts using stainless steel cable & crimps.

I am a mixed media artist who works in acrylic, graphite, pastel, & collage. My pieces contain a lot of texture, unique mark making & colors galore…often described as exuberant, joyful & unguarded.

Acrylic paintings using pallet knives and brushes. They are highly textured w/glass, modeling paste, & other found items on gallery wrapped canvas and range from whimsical to landscape to abstract.


Lesa and Debbie scour thrift stores and estate sales for vintage & costume jewelry and frames. The result is unique, one-of-a-kind, up-cycled art pieces that range from traditional to whimsical.

Painting with acrylic, I use silk as my canvas because it is translucent and absorbs pigment with a subtle iridescence. Visible through the silk are mono print textures I create with dyes & screens.