Years of Transformative Work…
Driven by curiosity and an eagerness to try new things, the artist has followed her path through multiple media, starting with an early interest in fiber, and moving on to a lengthy series of figures in clay.
Her early work in ceramic sculpture reflected an interest in mythology and the surreal.
The artist found herself drawn into the beauty of wood— its color, grain, and the form lying hidden in the interior of the block. Moving from additive to subtractive sculpture meant embracing the slow, often-meditative processes of chisel, sandpaper, and oil.
The new focus on wood brought the beginning of a series of commissions:
from the mundane— carved business signs and plaques,
to the whimsical— large, fabricated furniture in laminated hardwood,
and on to the fabulous— doors, gates, and large scale mural reliefs for hotels, businesses, and private residences.
As doors opened, project after project led into other new media, welded aluminum plate, stainless steel, repoussé copper, cast aluminum, topiary and Bondo!
After a decade as designer with an internationally distributed dinnerware manufacturer, working with epoxy resin prototypes and sandcast aluminum, the artist chose to focus on following her own muse— celebrating the beauty of the human form…
No Horizon/No Walls
Recent Work
In her recent work, the artist has explored the iconography of the female in a series of nudes— reliefs in wood, aluminum, glass, and acrylic, with neon, LED and plasma tubes.
Her dramatic ladies, life-sized and splashed with light, ask us questions about how we see women.
Always fascinated by technologies and techniques, the artist has, at every step, augmented her expertise as well as her toolchests to move forward in new media. She has collected new tools and built by hand what she has needed for the new work: spinning wheels, kilns, looms, plaster molds, silicone molds, refractory molds, deckles, frames—building new spaces and assembling new work stations as the need arises.
In her octagon studio, high in the mountains, her days are filled with the hard, slow work of creating the physical from her thoughts and ideas.