Whitney’s creative life began early, shaped by years spent immersed in making and observing color, texture, and composition while moving through spaces where creativity was both work and a way of life through her mother’s business. Those formative experiences were balanced by a broader education in the world itself, gained through constant movement, distant horizons, and an early awareness of scale, geography, and interconnectedness through her family’s history of living abroad and her father’s career in aviation.

Before returning fully to art, Whitney spent fifteen years working as a nurse, bearing witness to the human condition in its most unguarded moments of fragility, resilience, grief, and grace. This work included critical care nursing, home health, nursing education, and school nursing. These years of service sharpened a sensitivity to nuance, presence, and the quiet emotional landscapes people carry within them.

Ultimately, Whitney’s practice has come full circle, returning to those earlier instincts to create. Drawing on lived experience, the work is enriched by both intimate human encounters and a wide view of the world. She seeks to honor and explore these complexities through colorful impressionism and spiritual themes guided by a deep attention to the natural world.

Whitney looks to nature as both teacher and witness to the human experience. She turns toward the quiet intelligence and wisdom embedded in landscapes, plants, weather, and natural rhythms as a way to understand the human experience of cycles, tensions, and an enduring capacity for renewal.

Creating art is Whitney’s way of entertaining uncertainties of life as manifestation of a bigger creative, loving life force, a knowable and unknowable Divine source that flows through all living things, weaving an interconnected web, inspiring to create.

Ultimately, Whitney’s art is an invitation to slow down and remember our place within something far older and far wiser than ourselves.