Mantling Owl Painting

I'm a painter living and working in the Arctic. My work is usually built from layers and layers of images and paint, using a variety of tools and archival media. This method of constructing the final artwork feels authentic to me since it mimics how we build our identities over time, from erasures and mistakes, to contemplations and actions, to reversals and formation. My subject matter is often pulled from the natural world where I live, just near the arctic circle in Alaska: animals, mountains, symbols representing various kinds of weather, and the plant life found in the summers under the Midnight Sun. I live here for reasons of family, and my relationship to the environment is one I'm always trying to reconcile through my art.