What I feel and wish the most for now is grace: the gracefulness of these creatures swimming through the ocean, grace that they exist. Grace for myself as a new mother, finding time to paint between baby naps and weekly crises. Grace for us all, because continuing to create and experience others’ creation is a lifeline that lifts us all from both the mundane and the unthinkable.

In this Grace series, I paint the exotic forms of oceanic creatures—jellyfish & nudibranchs. It’s amazing that something in our world can look so fantastical, but it really exists.

This Orange Mandarinfish is part of a pair of mandarinfish--when the Blue and Orange Mandarinfish are placed next to each other, they look like they're swimming together.