I am fascinated with edges and borders, both real and imaginary. Straight edges and boundaries become either blurred and subdued or activated and energized. Expressive line drives movement and creates relationships of elements. What is real becomes abstract. I produce one-of-a-kind fine art prints (monotypes) My earlier work on this site explores still-life and landscape. In my more recent work I am combining painterly monotype techniques with drypoint, photopolymer and collograph methods and adding collage elements and hand/machine stitching. I am fascinated with the hand-written library catalog cards of librarians of generations ago, both as sources of information and personal handwork and line. By making these "found" pieces my own, I aim to explore and express the meaning of people and things in history as I know it.
I am a graduate of Smith College and the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Currently, I work at the Springfield City Library and have lived in Easthampton for 28 years. I am a member of Zea Mays Printmaking studio in Florence, Massachusetts where I find the perfect combination of stimulation and learning plus the opportunity for the quiet pursuit of art.
Being selected as the winner of the first Eastmont Art Fund juried show for my piece of Echodale Farm. Curating Subject + Matter for December 2008 at The Williston Northampton School
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