I am a fine artist, muralist, and portrait painter based in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.

My work lives in schools, on community walls, and in homes art that decorates a space and holds the memories that live inside it. I paint the people whose stories shaped this land: civil rights organizers, educators, and community builders. I paint the people you love so their faces endure long after memory fades.

I founded A Beautiful Distraction on one belief: art is for decorating a home and holding space for the memories inside it, the thing a community passes down when words aren't enough.

Born in New York. Rooted in South Carolina, painting for what outlasts us.