Slowing down and connecting with the world around me. Being fully present in the moment, whether big or small in significance. Doing what I want to do. Working with things I like, that inspire me. This is when I am truly living and this is what I strive to do as an artist. I alternate between different mediums and modes of working, prompting my mind to travel into different realms of thinking and feeling. Most of my source imagery originates from the natural world, then I allow my imagination to be my guide. I am happy when my artistic practice becomes a meditative experience. While some planning goes into my work, I never know what the end-result will be. The process is just as important as the end-product and I am excited by this mystery. As Robert Henri writes in The Art Spirit, “For an artist to be interesting to us they must have been interesting to themselves."
 
I was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1974 and obtained my BFA in Painting with a minor in Art History at Hartford Art School. I earned my MFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts, where I met my husband, sculptor Sean Langlais. I am a professor of Painting and Drawing at Three Rivers/Connecticut State Community College in Norwich, Connecticut and Program Coordinator of Visual Arts. I am the director of Three Rivers Gallery on the college campus. I have curated shows and exhibited my work throughout the Northeast. My work is part of the permanent collection of the United States Federal Government, Department of the State; two of my paintings are installed in the United States Embassy in Yerevan, Armenia. I am an elected artist at Norwich Arts Center and a member of Armenian International Women Artists. My grandfather was landscape painter Claude W. Stevens II, graduate of Dartmouth College and son of Connecticut State Representative, Claude W. Stevens I. I live in Connecticut with my husband and son Charlie.