I began painting more seriously after retiring from my career as an art educator.

 

I continued a landscape series of my cousins’ property in the Berkshires called High Meadows. It was there, as a child, that I first experienced the transformative power of nature which has continued to be a source of inspiration for me.

 

During the pandemic I became fascinated by painting the clothing worn by people in my family. I had saved pieces that were worn or sewn by my mother. The compositions became portraits connecting to memory and time while transcending the color, print, and texture of the material. 

 

I am blessed with two grandchildren who have become my portrait subjects. I find their rapidly changing world to offer an abundance of painting subjects that explore my love and concern for them.

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Past exhibits

• Visual Storytelling, Pound Ridge Library, 2025

• Within/Without Rriverfront Art Gallery, Yonkers Public Library, 2024

• Text as Art Exhibition, Hudson Valley Books for Humanity, 2024

• Art for the River, Ossining Riverworks, 2024

• CoverLovers Remix, Pelham Art Center, 2023

• Artist Club Exhibition, Pelham Art Center, 2023

• Reflections on the Hudson River, Blue Door Art Center, 2022

• Cover Lover Remix, Pelham Art Center, 2022

• Pelham Art Center, Artist Club Exhibition, 2022

• Lost and Found, Ossining Arts Council, 2021

• New Rochelle Art Association, 1st Place Oils/Acrylics, 2021

• Hungers/Harvest, Bethany Arts Community, 2021

• Together ApArt, ArtsWestchester, 2021

• Ossining Arts Council Member Exhibit, Ossining Public Library, 2021

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Education

• BS SUNY New Paltz

• MS in Studio Art, College of New Rochelle

• Courses at School of Visual Arts, New York Academy of Art, Art Students’ League