"Go the hell outside!!"

What was your favorite thing to draw as a child? Why did that lodge in your head?

I loved drawing portraits because I enjoyed really seeing a person and trying to capture their essence and flowers, of course — I guess some things never change!

Listen to music while you work? Anything special in your work space that unleashes your creative juices?

I absolutely love putting on a playlist that captures the energy of whatever I'm drawing as I'm making, and I always love having a candle lit or an incense going to help inspire me!

Did you have a magic moment when you knew you wanted art to be your life?

That feeling came very young for me, but I think it was post-graduation from art school and the feeling of imposter syndrome leaving my body that helped me to realize how cool it was that I made creating and drawing important to my life and that I wanted to continue flowing in that direction!

Any activities, exercises or strategies to pull yourself out of the occasional artistic rut?

I try to give myself space to make really bad-silly-goofy art that only I get to see and keep doing it until I find something that I enjoy in there!

How does creativity run in your family, even if it’s not design-related?

A lot of the folks in my family ended up in the direction of beauty and hairstyling. My mother was a hairstylist and my grandparents, too. They also owned a beauty salon that I grew up in! But it was through my dad that I learned about photography and drawing, and it really inspired me.