I live in the Hudson Valley, New York.
I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design,
having studied my last year of college in Rome Italy as a student in the
European Honors Program. I graduated in 1986.
After twenty years of parenting and many of life’s chapters, I have returned
to the studio.
I describe my working philosophy this way:
Every year, I plant a garden. I have a patch of land. I plant seeds, watch the
weather and examine the soil. I practice attention and patience, one
tempering the other, so that I can work with the elements, one step at a
time for a thriving garden. I may have to cull and weed out what is no
longer useful and nourish what is.
This is how I approach a painting. I choose a subject and then the
gardening begins. As much as there is a starting point, an intention, there is
the life of the painting and what it tells me it needs next, one step at a time.
My journey from intention to a finished piece is a steady submission to the
beauty and truth I know is there. With patient attention, I can describe what
emerges.
I use color, painting style and composition as changing tools for my work.