Biography
My husband and I are new residents of East Tennessee, having moved here in March 2008. I was born and brought up in New York, and studied painting and drawing at the Art Students League during my teen years. At Bennington College (VT), my double major was in art history and painting, followed by graduate work in fine arts at Boston University.

After teaching elementary school art for three years and participating in some group shows in Boston and juried exhibits in the Greater Boston area, I eventually ended up in newspaper journalism, becoming a reporter, then editor of the food, lifestyle and, finally, travel sections of the Telegram & Gazette, a daily in Worcester MA, a city roughly the size of Knoxville. The creative process for painting and drawing was channeled into managing staff, writing and designing section fronts, while my easel stood unused for more than two decades. Upon taking an early retirement in 2001, I returned to my first love, art, won some awards, and was juried in to The Westboro Gallery, a cooperative in Central Massachusetts. My work was also in two other area galleries and has been exhibited in regional juried shows, among them the Fitchburg Art Museum's annual exhibition of works by New England artists.

Artist's statement
Like most artists, I cannot remember a time when I was not drawing. From an early age, I explored different 2D and 3D mediums, but always returned to drawing, pen and ink, and painting in oils. In recent years, acrylic has been my medium of choice.

What intrigues me is the surface beauty - and sometimes the darkness - of my surroundings; the interplay of texture, design, color, light and shadow. Sometimes my challenge is in presenting visually the under-layer of an idea or story, probed either concretely or symbolically.

And always there is something magical in smelling the paint, and in that connection between the brush and the stroke. It is the process that completes my creative journey more than the finished work.