I have two distinct lines. My Whimsical Wall Whales are wrought from repurposed pine boards ,and employ my excellent drawing and carving skills to bring soul, texture and animation to these whimsical anthropomorphic wall creatures. Each one is unique in character, some employ the old layers of paint in the detailing.
My Fine Line Shells feature my highly detailed pen and ink drawings in limited edition prints on Maine Scallop Shells. The images recall the traditional, nautical art of Scrimshaw and feature many local lighthouses ,Maine schooners, and New England sea creatures. A brass style easel is included with each shell. Each piece has hand drawn detailing and is signed and dated by the artist.

I am a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art . I earned a B.F. A. in 1978 and moved to Camden that same year. I was fortunate to find a house on idyllic Hosmer Pond with a view of Bald Mountain. Here I married a British sailor and raised two sons who had a beach for a front yard. I worked in a fine artisan craft store and art gallery for 35 years in downtown Camden .
My fine art and illustration training enables me to work in different mixed medias ,which I continue to explore on large and small scales. I am primarily interested in the power of line to describe emotion, movement and the ephemeral nature of reality. The natural world in its complexity and extraordinary beauty, is a constant source of wonder and inspiration.

I have been painting for over 50 years. I have just felt most myself with a paintbrush ever since I met one when I was 5 years old. I went to quite a few art schools before setting off on my own course. I moved to Maine in 1987 to be closer to nature and have a garden where I could grow a lot of flowers. Flowers and nature are my inspiration, I see nature as a whimsical being, and I portray her as such.

I endeavor to create paintings that evoke a sensory feeling associated with place, nature and experience. Paintings evolve from a process of applying layer upon layer with multiple glazes to create movement, translucency and depth. A painting becomes completed for me if it reaches a point of evoking an experiential feeling, with multiple viewers connecting with their own individualized interpretation.

As a process painter, one who mixes spontaneity of expression with reflective development of each painting, my work broadly falls within three themes of often overlapping but abstract experience: works that evoke a memory sense of experience of the natural environment; works that evoke a connection to personal action and movement; works that splash with color, texture and line, evoking a reactive feeling followed by visual movement through the work. Generally, I prefer to work on larger pieces so the viewer feels she is walking into the work, with details that unfold the closer she gets. This is achieved by using a combination of old techniques of glazing and layering while also incorporating contemporary staining, field, splatter, hard edge, and bold color techniques. The bubbling found in many paintings is one that I’ve developed over the last six years, and it moves in and out of my work. I paint, reworking the piece until the work resonates a feeling of a place or experience or wonder that I enjoy.