After having moved many times throughout the United States, I recently returned to my birthplace, Rochester, NY. I’ve studied and exhibited in New York City, Boston, Phoenix, Seattle, Indianapolis, Chicago, and Rochester.

My practice involves alternating between abstract and representational painting. Each offers me a different pleasure and helps me keep my tight work relaxed and my loose work disciplined.

I love pastel painting for representational work. Layering hues of this highly pigmented medium allows for an artistically heightened reality with a luminous and intimate play of colors.

My non-representational multimedia pieces stem from my attraction to the elemental beauty of color and texture that my camera captures when zooming in, thereby reducing the subject to an unidentifiable abstraction. I further abstract the photos by cutting them into pieces making snippets of inspirational “seeds” to grow into a complex and intriguing painting. I layer these fragments with paint, ink, etc., often using needle and thread to sew elements together. The result is a lusciously complex and intriguing kaleidoscopic piece with tension and movement, with push and pull; the original inspiration seeds often no longer visible but intrinsically felt.