I live with my husband on a hilltop farm  in Southern Vermont where I have two studios. A winter studio in my home and a larger space for spreading out in the summer where I also make ceramic pots and sculpture. 

In my formative years I spent a lot of time drawing but didn’t have a chance to paint.  In a required college art course a teacher introduced me to a style of painting using color and free abstract marks that I would now call Abstract Expressionism. The feeling of freedom and exhilaration I experienced there in that process of exploring emotions with tempera paint even on cheap paper remains with me to this day and became my inspiration in 2010 when I committed to organizing my own art education. Since then I have independently studied art history as well as art process and technique.

I have felt especially compelled by the art of the late 19th century as well as early and mid 20th century figurative and pure abstract expressionist painters.  I have had many local and online teachers in numerous classes including: paint mixing, figure drawing, portraiture and techniques of painting as well as abstract composition and exploration of design principles. 

My approach to art is experimental on the one hand and on the other driven by a desire to draw well, if loosely and on my own terms, and to create compelling compositions either calligraphic or in multiple layers to convey through color, line and form, a sense of history, of movement and  emotional connection.   I work primarily in acrylic paint with mixed media and collage elements on a variety of surfaces: canvas, wood, and paper. Lately I have also enjoyed  oil painting with cold wax on Artboard and Arches Oil paper.