Welcome.

I’m an artist who has always been drawn toward still life subject matter, and especially to the mid-twentieth century realist painters who employed simplified forms and varying viewpoints in a single painting. I enjoy bringing rich colors and textile surfaces into my paintings, prints, and collages. With a strong maternal line and influence, the domestic setting and ideas of home are standard in my work. Repeat patterns of textiles, often relief printed, can play a part in my compositions.

Still life provides not only a means of exploring composition and color, but also to examine the meaning of place, relationships, scarcity and abundance. In the Come to the Table series in particular, plates and chairs stand in for family or community members in all their variety, personalities and relations to one another.

I began my studies of Fine Art at Indiana University, earning a BFA degree with a specialty in Textile Design, which included print design. Further lifelong studies have primarily been in painting and printmaking (Joan Griswold, Jenny Nelson, Zea Mays Printmaking Studio, and others). I maintain a studio in Stockbridge, MA, in the culturally rich Berkshires, and exhibit throughout the northeastern states and beyond.