Erika draws in pencil and paints in oil, sitting on the ground onsite, in urban wilderness parks in cities -- often along urban creekland left empty due a floodplain. She has a masters in landscape architecture and paints at a 1:1 scale to record changing natural phenomena over time. Erika has completed residencies at Vermont Studio Center and 100W Corsicana and she was invited by the Botanical Research Institute of Texas to paint a series of paintings in the BRIT blackland prairie-- built on a former parking lot-- in Ft Worth, Texas... a show called "PRAIRIE", Most recently, she had a solo exhibition, "Restoration", at Cluley Projects gallery in Dallas, Texas, where she showed work painted during Covid in her backyard, at home. These paintings record a trumpet vine and crossvine climbing up and over a partition fence dividing her house from her neighbor. Her work can be found in public collections including UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Fidelity Investments, as well as in private collections throughout the United States.