I live and work in Long Island City, a mostly industrial part of New York City. My garden there is an oasis of the natural world and has been a major source for my work. Along with plants and birds from my own garden I use small pieces of nature that survive on the streets: fallen birds, bits of weeds, feathers, leaves, and twigs. Although all the elements of nature in my work are alive in some way, the birds are the most active. My interest in birds does not have to do with individual species and my interest in natural objects is not botanical. Birds have for me a mysterious and deeply human quality. Watching birds take a bath or fight over a scrap of bread is a window into a drama. What seems to me most compelling is to use all of these small and mostly forgotten pieces of the natural world in a way that ties them directly to our human experience. In this world pieces of a weed can suddenly become a tree, a hill, or a cave. A feather that we walk over on the street can suddenly fly.

I am a printmaker and a painter. The size of my pieces varies from 8" X 10" to occasionally as large as 17" X 20". In these works on paper I use many different materials including watercolor, pencil and pastel in addition to oil base printing ink. Visually my work has to do with layers, physical layering of color, shape or texture and illusions of space or transparency. Often I use natural objects in making monotypes or etching plates, and at times as physical things collaged in a finished image. A number of recent pieces are 3 dimensional relief surfaces composed of pieces of prints raised off the surface and combined into a single image. I use the etching press as an image-making tool and all of the pieces are unique.

Recent one person exhibitions:
Bird Catchers NoHo Gallery NYC, 2003
Walking with Nature Intercdhurch Center NYC, 2002
Brodsky Gallery, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ 2003

Recent Group Exhibitions:
Siren Song Gallery Greenport, NY 2006
By the Shore East End Arts Center, Riverhead, NY 2006
Into the Woods East End Arts Center, Riverhead, NY 2005
Small Works National Association of Women Artists, NYC 2005
Doris Kriendler memorial Award for Printmaking
Pressing Works, National Association of Women Artists NYC 2004
Noho Gallery, NYC 2001, 2002
Watermark Gallery, Greenport, NY 2002
Whitney Artworks, Greenport, NY 2001-2002
Fables of La Fontaine, 2001-2003
National Association of Women Artists print exhibit, Clifton NJ Art Center, 2002
Art Sites Gallery, Greenport, NY 2000
Hutchins Gallery, C.W. Post College, Long Island NY 2000

Memberships and Awards
Resident Fellow 1995, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Member, National Association of Women Artists
Member, Manhattan Graphics Center

Selected Permanent Collections
David Rockefeller Jr, Pfizer Inc, Pepsico, Manhattan Musicians Union, Wilmington Trust Company, Credit Suisse First Boston
Education
Rhode Island School of Design BFA painting and printmaking
University of Iowa MA painting