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.