Originally from New York, I lived in Europe, Asia and Africa, and now in Australia, after having worked in 25 countries.  I’ve returned fulltime in the last 20 years to my lifelong involvement with painting, begun when I was a child.  My international experience has both made me at home in a wide variety of cultures and increased my awareness of pressing environmental issues.  My artwork, and my environmental involvement have focused in recent years on forests and oceans.

I've always used a wide range of media: drawing and painting in oil, watercolour, pastel, pencils, aquarelle sticks, ink and acrylics.  In about 2022, I introduced paper coloured with acrylic ink and cut into various forms to my paintings.  I painted most of the paper I used but included and transformed some images from other sources.  I concentrated on forests and oceans specifically as wildlife habitats.

This works in this collection, entitled “Habitats” were based on the perception of similarities between forests and oceans as parallel habitats, comparable in several ways: Forests as habitats were simplified to trees, birds and blue sky. Oceans were simplified to coral, fish and blue water.  This resulted in a mixing of the two habitats, with fish in trees and birds everywhere, and a deliberate ambiguity as to whether some images were trees or coral, fish or birds and sky or water.