About Me

As a very tall, overly imaginative loner growing up in Philadelphia, I tended towards a rich inner world of drawing comic strips, creating storybooks, making puppets and dolls from found materials and steeping myself in every theatrical project offered in my schools and my community.

All of this interest in visual storytelling eventually lead to sharing my creative passions as an educator in public, private and international schools for over 35 years. My classrooms became that virtual toy box, the “stage” where I could share and offer up a plethora of “making” opportunities for my students. It took retirement and a move to New Mexico to jump start the next chapter of my life as a working artist.

My early art offerings on the east coast became the catalyst for later pursuits in wood working and welding in Santa Fe, eventually bringing me back to my love for softer materials, back always to my love for the “hunt” for repurposed stuff for the dolls I exclusively create today.

Since 2017, my work has become all hand sewn, often monster-like, asymmetrical and edgy. I love rough edges and the soft fraying of vintage textiles. Embodying a childlike vulnerability, the work invites the viewer to cultivate their own personal narrative, as I poke fun of, cry with and embrace what makes us human and imperfect.

Much of my recent work addresses the ugliness and confusion of “dis-ease”, mocking its hold on us and reminding the viewer of the importance of humor in the grips of life’s ongoing calamities.