I have been active in the visual arts since early childhood.  My favorite thing in kindergarten was using the easel; I hated waiting for my turn!.  I have lived my life acutely aware of the rythym of the changing seasons and the small mysteries found in daily happenings.  A lifelong intense desire to learn the 'how to' of making things has provided me with experience using a variety of media which I incorporate as needed to 'paint' my pieces.

During the past few years, in addition to my paintings, I have been making mixed media works which I refer to as altar pieces.  Part painting and part sculpture, I use the altarpiece as a form to teach, tell stories and elevate my subject matter, reveal its importance.  Recent altar pieces have focused on ecological themes, issues with the environment, and explore humans’ effect on nature and vice versa.   And as I have always been one to see both sides of a situation, I paint the contrasts between inside, outside, good, bad, nature, technology, reality, abstraction, and so tell both sides of a story.