I have spent my entire life in the arts – both performing & visual. For the last 40 years I have worked as an Art Director & Designer. My career has touched on several aspects of design including apparel, merchandising and interiors, but primarily graphic design. Before fully committing to running my own design firm, I was an Art Director for NYC Transit where I worked on collectible MetroCards, Poetry-in-Motion, and Transit Museum Store merchandising and promotions. My work was viewed by the over 5 million riders of the NYC Subway system daily.

Inspired by the often over-looked beauty of the art in the subway system, I became a Mosaic Artist - creating abstract sculptures using reclaimed wood, tesserae, glass, stone and beads. This was my first foray into the fine arts and creating work solely for the joy of it.

Having recently retired from my graphic design career, I took a year to travel to the West Coast to study with some of the mixed-media artists I so admire.

Because I’m still developing my skills and techniques, my art is stylistically varied. It has been a process to move away from the rigid & strict design principles of graphic design. At times I still instinctively incorporate those principles to arrange and create with a sense of visual order. And at other times, I’m more loose and flowing - working purely from a place of intuition. The intersection of abstract art and graphic design is where I currently exist in my creative process.

My mixed-media work is done in many layers. I use pages from books that have inspired and shaped me, prayer through asemic writing, pages from journals, old maps, and vintage images of women - many from famous Renaissance works. All have a sense of power and transcendence. I call this process creating “layers of good intentions.” The next layer is adding in my unique hand-made collage papers and transparent prints, acrylic paint, pastels and graphite. I’m always surprised by what’s revealed during the layering process, and I love the textures and sense of history that are created through this process.

My hope is for the viewer to experience the beauty and peace in the complexity of it all, and to find an emotional connection to the many details that are unearthed through my layering techniques.

I also began studying ceramics during the pandemic and although it was only meant to be a jumpstart to my creativity, I fell in love with the process and the therapeutic qualities of working with clay. There are times when this calls to me louder than the other.

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