biography

I earned an MFA in printmaking from Arizona State University. After graduation, I bought two floor looms and started making rugs and tapestries. Eventually I grew frustrated with the restraints of weaving, the warp and the weft, and especially the fact that I could never change anything, so I sold my looms and started down the path of rediscovering what kind of artist I wanted to be. I attended Haystack School of Arts and Crafts in Maine, where I was fortunate enough to have Warren Seelig as my instructor. He opened the door to all sorts of materials and experimentation.

Since then I have used pencil, pastel and oil stick on paper, done reverse painting on Plexiglas, acrylics on wooden panels and gesso board and now I have returned to painting on layers of Plexiglas and stacking them to make 3 dimensional paintings.

The outdoors is the biggest influence on my work. The first landscape I knew was Spokane, Washington, where I grew up. That was followed by the cactus of Arizona for 5 years, the urbanscapes of Boston and Washington, DC, the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles, and 22 years in the desert of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

For six years until 2004, we had a condo in Kas, Turkey, on the Turquoise Coast of the Mediterranean, where I spent six months a year.

Now I live on an island across the sound from Seattle in a temperate rainforest. Without even being aware of what was happening, each new location has changed the shapes and colors in my work.