I was born just a couple years after the Vietnam War ended. We didn’t have much growing up — my parents worked hard just to make sure there was food on the table — but our home was always full of love. That love is the first place where my creativity quietly started.
When I was eight, my parents signed me up for piano lessons even though money was tight. Somehow, they still believed in giving me something beautiful to learn. Music became my first language… the way I expressed feelings I didn’t know how to say out loud.
Years later, life carried me far from home. I moved to the U.S., studied music in college, and built a life filled with new dreams.
I didn’t know it then, but another creative spark was waiting for me — a spark that didn’t show up until the day my mother-in-law asked me to paint some flowers on her laundry room wall.
I had never really painted before. But I bought some brushes, watched a few YouTube videos, and tried. And somehow… that little mural lit something inside me.
I realized how much joy color brings me, how comforting it feels to create something with my own hands. That one moment — standing in that laundry room with paint on my fingers — became the beginning of everything that came after.
I kept painting. I kept learning. I kept growing.
And painting slowly became the place where I could pour my whole heart — my memories, my music, my emotions, my stories.
Today, my art is a blend of where I come from, who I’ve loved, and everything I’ve learned along the way — from playing piano as a child to painting my first mural for my mother-in-law, all the way to becoming the artist I am now.
I’m still on this journey. I’m still showing up every day. It hasn’t been perfect or easy, but it has been beautiful- full of moments that shaped me, stretched me and make me who I am today and now, every painting I create carries a piece of my story. A piece of home. A piece of music. A piece of love
and this is only the beginning
Thank you for being part of my story.
And here’s to all the places this brush will take me next.
