ABOUT THE ARTIST

I am self taught and inspired to make pieces from a place of intuition and emotion. I explore the symbiotic relationship between pain and vulnerability  with that of power and beauty as they exist in the human condition, more specifically, in the female experience. In my early 20s, I began to make sculpture from driftwood and copper.  Since that time I’ve been working with found objects, scraps, and items found along the road, behind abandoned buildings, in the woods, ocean and along riverbeds.  Working in physical therapy and fitness for decades kept me deeply in tune with anatomy,  biology and somatic expression.  Working with objects, I translate history and emotion.  I combine elements into dynamic abstractions that represent conflict and challenge, appreciation and beauty, trauma and triumph.  The Human Condition.  Sometimes I make shiny, happy reflections.

 Much of the emotion in my work comes from the desire for people to love and not hurt each other, and to understand each other's pain (and love) as their own. 

The Wabi Sabi aesthetic most accurately defines my work, my process and what I am attracted to in life and art.  Wabi Sabi-the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete; a beauty of things modest and humble; of things unconventional.

EXHIBITS

9/2023 No Stranger Among Us-Alofft Gallery/Litchfield,CT-Group Show

4/2022 Imperfect-Oliver Wolcott Library/Litchfield, CT with Richard Heys

6/2022 Kent Art Association Invitational Show/Kent, CT- Group Show

11/2020 4 Walls-4 Artists- Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens/Washington Depot, CT-Group Show

2/2020 Art Tripping @ John Kane Studios/New Preston, CT -Salon Style Group Show

1/2020 Moving Parts-Gunn Memorial Library/Washington, CT-Solo Show

11/2019 Gallery 53/Woodbury, CT-Group Show

10/2019 Chains, Rain and Moments- Points Gallery Annex/Torrington, CT-Group Show

8/2019 Moving Parts-Gallery 7 Studio/Torrington, CT-Solo Show