Growing up, my dad was an artist who painted a myriad of things, including oil landscapes. Art was in my blood, and in my teen years I started to seek out resources to teach myself how to draw, and eventually, paint.

One day in my first year of college, I asked my roommate from Germany to help me name one of my first landscape pieces. While staring at the painting, she used one German word to name it, “Sehnsucht.” Little did she know that she had not only named the piece, but had also given me a name for my identity as an artist.

I love creating a variety of things, particularly landscapes, but the common theme between all of them is a desire to capture joy in the variety of forms joy takes. “Sehnsucht” is a word C.S. Lewis used to describe that mixture of joy, nostalgia, and the ache in our hearts when we see something truly beautiful. When my roommate named my first piece “Sehnsucht,” it sparked an artistic focus in my work that has carried into my art business.