artist's statement​​

     My mother and grandmother were painters and influenced my love of the arts at a very young
     age. As a child, it was my dream to become a ballerina or an artist. The pain of those toe shoes was too      much. But the making art continued to seduce me.  At 10 my Grandmother gave me a canvas and
     let me use her oil paints. A decade later I was selling my paintings. The next decade I worked with           interior designers selling large woven wall hangings. One was purchased for permanent collection in        an art museum. The following ​decade I studied photography and was especially captivated by
     Polaroid image transfers. 

      Foreign cultures have also been a passion of mine. I want to visit as much of the world as I can.
      As an adult, I made traveling a priority which gave me the opportunity to see the world’s great
      works of art and architecture and visit and photograph diverse cultures. 

      My love of mosaics started after discovering a book by a painter/textile artist, Kaffe Fassett. He
      too had worked in many mediums before trying mosaics. There is a considerable variety of subject          matter in my work from representational to abstract, and non-objective. The thread that runs
       throughout, regardless of the medium, is a love of color. The paintings of the Fauves especially,
       Henri Matisse and Andre Derain and the colorful, haunting images by Gustav Klimt have
       always inspired me. 

​       The variety available to the mosaic maker is limitless. I know I've only begun to scratch the surface of         ​the possibilities of this medium.

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