Art is a reflection of the inner world made manifest in the outer.   It is powerful in
It’s ability to change our view of the world.  It is beauty for the sake of beauty and
dream  like in its ability to change our state of mind.  It evokes a transformative state
and takes us from our preconceived theories, into a suspended moment of
Consciousness, when we newly see the miracle of phenomena around us.   Art can
engage the viewer and transport them newly into their own perception,  to look anew
At the world around them and see it clearly for the first time, ask with new eyes.

Personal Information:
Born 1946  Denver, Colorado
Education:  1964-69   University of Colorado BA(history, minor in philosophy and
                                      elementary education.
                      1979-82    Southern Methodist University  (  Meadows School of the Arts)
                                      BFA  candidate , special studies in Sculpture and Printmaking
                     1991-95      Berkshire  School of Contemporary Art,   North Adams, Ma.  
                                      Large Scale monotypes                      
                     2002           Bellevue Community College, Seattle Washington
                                       Certificate in Public  Art, Cheryl Leo-Gwin director

Art as Journey

     I have recently moved to Cape Cod. It was a lifetime homecoming for me.  As a child I had an uncle, Maurice  He was a generous and amazing man, given the Nobel Prize for starting UNICEF, he had married a Pate, who worked at the UN in New York, and had a summer house in Osterville. Polish woman while working on war relief for the children of Poland.  She was never able to live on the Cape permanently because she suffered so with homesickness.  Uncle Maurice, to fill his house with children and laughter in the summer invited my family to come to the Cape/

     I married young and moved fourteen times in twenty-eight years to follow my husband’s career.  I had always hoped at the end of the journey I might talk him into living on Cape Cod. Last year we found a house and retired to Brewster.  We have children an hour north in Franklin , Ma, graduates of  Brown University in Providence, and settled in New England.  They have three sons, our grandchildren, who visit often to our house on Slough Road.

     In 2006 we opened a small studio/gallery The Studio on Slough Road; it has grown into a Contemporary Gallery for unusual and provocative shows of contemporary work.   I use the Studio as a working studio in the winter season, and teach printmaking at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. 

     As an artist I have worked in many media, large scale monotypes printed in North Adams, Ma .before the opening of Mass MOCA.  My mixed media painting ,shown most often  in Seattle and now here on Cape Cod, at Ardeo’s Tuscan Grill, Inspired Spaces: Creative Living @ Century 21 , Harwich and Hyannis, and recently at The Harbor Hotel Gallery, Provincetown, curated by Gillian Drake, publisher and editor of  Cape Arts Review.

     I also spent ten years in New Orleans where I showed at Le Mieux Gallery on Julia Street, four years in Houston at Mother Dog Studios in the warehouse district.   I returned to school at The Bellevue Community College where I received my certificate in Public Art, interning with artist Dan Corson, of Seattle City Lights.  

     My travels have taken me to Hong Kong, mainland China, Japan, Europe, Greece, San Miguel, Mexico ,Croatia, Poland and Hungary, Germany and Austria ,Spain and Portugal, Vietnam,  and most importantly Nicaragua    My work deals with human habitats in the wild and domesticated  cultures of the world.  The cycle of transformation in nature dictates my investigation into survival and evolution.