My background in printmaking and painting informs my interest in the intentional and unintentional relationships between these fields, drawing and sculpture.  As a painter I found a way to create actual dimension in my paintings by carving into the surface, and revealing the previously buried details by working reductively.

In turn, this process has expanded into sculptural pieces that relate visually to my paintings, and provide alliteration in terms of texture, shape and color.  The desire to expand and move away from the 2D rectangle has led me to explore drawing with wire and other materials. In this more organic and irregularly shaped phase of my art I incorporate the papers and fibers that I have collected from my life in the print studio: cheesecloth, both new and overused discarded from lithography, chine collé papers and tarlatan. The installations are incredibly fun to install and change each time I show them, as each space is different.

My latest pieces utilize paper ephemera, which I have put my mark on using wood burning tools, wax, and shellac. My interest has evolved and I am ready to move my art outside as I expand into stainless steel and aluminum. I am experimenting with torches, metal mesh, wire, and cast glass, which will help me find a new balance of delicacy with permanence.