My outlook on life is positive. "I am a sunny girl".

My art work reflects that sun power in every painting. I love nature, the outdoors, the mountains and the sea. My images are organic, bright, light with biomorphic shapes that convey a healing power. I add all sorts of nature found objects to my paintings such as shells, rocks, crystals, bark, seaweed, moss and lots of different shades of sand from various places all over the planet. This emphasizes the direct connection of our world with our spirit. Although abstract and impressionistic at the most in expression, my work is not about content, rather about balancing the outer world with our inner self, the soul. I feel that we all are on a path of spiritual healing. When a viewer looks at my art I hope that he or she finds a satisfaction, a truth, a joyful moment that is uplifting and can carry him through the day.

Here is a little on my past and on my experiences as an artist:

In college I focused on studying lithography and intaglio printmaking, which I never used again in my entire career as an artist. That does not mean that I might not get back into it one day in the future. After graduation there was no printing press available, so I went back to expressing my artistic creativity in watercolor and painting. Shortly after I discovered fiber.

My experience as a fiberartist for over 25 years left me with many skills and textures. As a farmer in North Carolina I grew wool from my own sheep, which I spun into rug wool and highly textured fun fibers.

After I was introduced to a production weaving technique possible with an antique union loom, I began to produce handwoven table-linens, which eventually grew into a profitable wholesale and retail business. I had become a skilled craftswoman with a full-time production weaving business employing 4 weavers and teaching over a dozen apprentices after my move to upstate New York. I produced thousands of handwoven products, which sold in over 75 craft shops all over the nation.

But my love for fine art and spontaneous creation brought me back to the one of the kind piece such as a wallhanging, a floor or wall rug often entirely created with naturally dyed organic fibers. My fabrics became less functional, more representational and symbolic. I used raw materials such as sisals, flax, organic cottons, onions skins, corn husks, papyrus or reeds to weave and make into paper, and combine the end result with nature photography to create a unique photo-fiber-art. I also transformed my dyeing fiber experience into painting raw canvases with natural pigmentation, now working entirely on wall art.

In February of 2006 my studio in the Catskills was taken by a destructive fire that took artwork from over 25 years, 5 looms, several thousand pounds of yarn and fiberart equipment that was not replaceable for financial and emotional reasons. The pain of this loss transformed me and I began ravenously painting under the instructions of a master fresco painter, Salvatore Scalisi. He introduced me into his world of plaster, sand, clay, lime, oils and resins and I was fascinated. His techniques reminded me of my hands-on dyeing processes, as his art was ancient in process, yet contemporary in expression. I dove into this media which I still practice now, having created hundreds of paintings large and small since the fire. I have added my own 'natural applications such as raw pigments, sand paints, embedments of shells and rocks and other hand-collected nature objects. This fresco technique allows me to explore my creativity to the fullest with the use of raw materials, natural pigmentations, oil paints, tools such as trowels and brushes, using wood and plaster, sand and soil, rocks and shells, fibers, papers, photography and anything I can dream of.

As an artist I can say that the form of expression does not matter and the variety in life gives spice to experience and subject matter. I truly feel rich and inspired by my pool of knowledge and am happy to share it with anyone that is interested.