Handfulls of Purpose
NEWEST WORK
20"x 20" | Oil on Canvas | 2026
The stories we tell about the American West are full of motion — cattle drives, gunfights, land rushes, men on horseback riding toward something. Those stories are true, and they matter. But beside every one of them stood a woman holding something just as heavy.
She gave birth on the trail. She buried children in unmarked ground and kept moving. She worked the land with the same hands that braided hair and mended harnesses and coaxed fire from wet wood in a February wind. She didn't ride into legend. She built it from the inside out, one ordinary, extraordinary day at a time.
Handfuls of Purpose is a portrait of that woman. Not a specific woman — every woman. The one history didn't overlook so much as simply forgot to turn around and see. She's still there. She never left.
She doesn't flinch. She doesn't soften. She just looks straight through you and waits for you to finally look back.
This work is currently entered in Unbridled: An All-Women Western Art Exhibition at the A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art. Inquire for availability.
Daydreaming
WIP
Daydreaming | Oil on canvas | 24x48 | 2026
There is a particular stillness that falls over horses when they rest against each other — heads dropped, eyes soft, the world temporarily set aside. It isn't sleep exactly. It's something quieter than that. Something closer to trust.
Daydreaming is a large format study of that moment. Two horses, one pale as morning and one dark as good earth, leaning into the shared space between them. The background is still finding itself, as WIPs do, but the heart of the painting is already there — in the curve of a neck, the weight of a head, the exhale that says I'm safe here.
This one is taking its time, and that feels right.
