I grew up and lived in Buffalo, New York, in the turbulent 60’s and 70’s, where I explored weaving and silk screening and Photography. On paper, I learned the rich possibilities of layering color and texture from textile artist Nancy Belfer at Buffalo State College; on film, I learned to capture the quirkiness of people and places from photographer Les Krims. It was during my California period in the 1980’s that I received several grants, which allowed me to explore several different media, including sculpture.

In the 1990’s while living in Santa Barbara, California, I became swept up by the emerging digital photography revolution and became fascinated by how I could use the individual pixels in a photograph as the basis for transforming ideas into images and vice versa. These on-going explorations allowed me to discover that my more traditional hands-on art merged wonderfully with newer technologies—that a stitch in a tapestry is not unlike a pixel in a photo; that a thin layer of ink in silk screening is not all that different from the layering process in Photoshop.

However, my journey as an artist truly exploded when I moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2000 and it continues to evolve daily. I have found the magnificent New Mexico environment with its intense light and often