March 2022 took me to Atlanta with the University of Hartford Low Residency Illustration Masters of Fine Arts program. Each fall and spring, we travel to a different US city for a week to meet, share our work and meet local guest artists. In October 2021, we traveled to Philadelphia for a week and the assignment that followed was to compile all of our inspiration and make an illustration in reaction to the trip. One of the places I visited in Philadelphia was the Philadelphia

It's been a month of teaching and painting, here's what's been on my plate! The image to the left is the beginning of my thesis work, the idea is to create food signage for/ inspired by Parkville Market in Hartford, CT. This progress picture is for a Pineapple Smoothie (actually served in a pineapple) that caught my eye on a recent trip to the market. Another project with some solid food imagery that I've been working on is a custom series of paintings for my uncle's newly re