About Me
I am a mixed media artist living and creating in Beacon NY since the end of 2016. Over the past 20 years I have lived and worked in the Boston Metro Area, Louisville, Kentucky and Maplewood New Jersey before settling in the Hudson Valley.
I attended The High School of Music and Art and later received a BFA with a concentration in sculpture from Boston University’s School of Fine Arts. While employed as an occupational therapist I also earned a M.Ed. from the Creative Arts In Learning Program at Lesley University.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, I spent several years sharing my love for painting, drawing, clay, Papier Mache and other media with teenagers and senior citizens in a community center in Brooklyn, as well as young children at a summer camp.
In the late nineties, my interest shifted to printmaking and mixed media. I began to explore the ways in which art could be used as a voice for social justice. Social justice themes continue to influence my work.
Across places and seasons, natural twists of trees and branches, skin like textures of their trunks, vibrant colors of the earth, and life around me capture my imagination. I am intrigued by the similarity of nature and the human experience, which at times is fluid and rhythmic and in other instances reflects abrupt and surprising changes.
In my work, my hands become the tools of my imagination manipulating varied textures to weave together the threads of that connection. A branch becomes another form of life, driftwood resembles old bones, nature and human forms become one. At times the task of pulling together these threads into some sort of cohesive expression seems overwhelming, but I have tried to capture the stirrings I have felt in response to my environment and my place in it. I continue to be drawn to mixed media as a way of expressing those responses.
The continuous layering of photographic images, original prints, paint and other textures through cutting, tearing, moving, and gluing allows me to navigate the essence of ambiguity and complexity that I witness in the world around me.