Meet the Artist

Since a very young age, drawing had become Lilly’s main escape from a tumultuous childhood. Armed with paper and a number 2 pencil, she could steal out of the house to draw within the safety of the forest surrounding her home, where no one would bother her.

Lilly’s mother was the single most unyielding pillar of support for her art career, taking notice of the dedication put into the drawings she would present to her, and gifting whatever supplies could be afforded every birthday and Christmas -along with a jar of pickles.

When Lilly was around 10 years old, her mother was diagnosed with COPD, a chronic degenerative lung disease, and art further provided an outlet to escape from the reality of having a disabled parent and becoming a caregiver. Her mother’s support never wavered.

Due to the traumatic circumstances of Lilly’s upbringing, her memory grew more illegible with each passing year, and in recent years, creating has become another way to remember, and to hold onto the good that life brings.

Lilly followed in her older siblings footsteps, and achieved high marks throughout all of school, eventually joining her older sister Jessica, in becoming the first generation of her family to go to college. She graduated from Baldwin Wallace University in 2019, and hopes to pursue a masters in fine arts, in an effort to share her story and teach others the deep history and family she has found within the art world.

Creating art is fundamental to how Lilly processes the world, and the revelations of one’s upbringing that come with growing up.

Lilly believes above all else, that anyone can be an artist, if they only take the time.

For a long time, Lilly stayed away from oil paint, the intimidating medium notoriously messy and long drying. It wasn’t until her second year of college that she traded her graphite and charcoal for paint, and fell in love with the malleablity of it. The texture and blendability had her immediately, and she’s been painting ever since.