I have always had an urge to explore and create. Using my eyes and hands to translate imagination is an emotional imperative. I taught special education for 33 years, and am currently retired. As a teacher, I had access to art equipment and supplies as well as a wood shop. Painted ceramic tile scenes, clay sculptures, furniture and metal objects resulted. I taught art and creativity to special learners as well. In the process, painting became my primary outlet. I learned techniques in courses and workshops at local universities in Vermont as well as workshops in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Taos, New Mexico. I have shown work at the annual South End Art Hop in Burlington, Vermont and been featured in an article in the local newspaper Seven Days promoting that event. Presently I share a studio space in Shelburne, Vermont and am focusing on painting and found wood sculpture.

The paintings and sculptures I have produced have generally been created for my own pleasure and an urge to represent thoughts and feelings. My subjects are generally from nature, but also often include people (real or imagined), places that I have visited and enjoyed, and arranged still life. All pieces let me present my relationship to the subjects. Relationship, memories, or concern lead me to expression.

I enjoy the feel of oil paint, its flow, push and pull. Painting and carving are sensual experiences. The outcome is often an emerging surprise. Some images have a dark aspect. I recognize the impermanence and inscrutability of existence. I often feel frustrated by our collective inability to relate to one another and to the world we inhabit. There is an urge to have the viewer pause and look deeper into the image but even more, into their self. When a viewer looks, moves on and then turns around to look again: something was shared. It is the only recognition needed.