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I am a self taught artist, inspired by the beauty that is always catching my eye, like trees, cozy rooms with wooden floors, doors, & window frames, illusive reflections in glass, vanishing architectural styles, & trees, trees, trees.
I hope you find my work soothing and comforting, appealing & inviting. I would like my art to increase your love of trees, wooden interiors, old buildings, comforting niches & places to chill; & I wish to encourage people to create a soothing retreat in their own interior space.
I am a Chicago native. I started drawing & designing rooms when i was knee high to a grasshopper, I majored in Interior Design, had two kids, created highly detailed hand embroidery work, lived in Rogers Park, Chicago, wrote bad poetry, learned about trees, moved to Wicker Park, began studying pen & ink drawing, moved to Bucktown— founded the Metamorphosis Clothing Co., (hand sewn, up-cycled clothing & accessories), moved to Ravenswood, adopted an Old English Sheepdog puppy, launched Vivified Flyers, ( pen & ink illustrated advertising for small businesses & the arts), studied painting & painters, moved to Petoskey, Michigan, studied & practiced my artwork, made some progress, relocated to Oak Park, Illinois, painted a mural in the Historic Art Deco Medical Arts Building on Lake street, had another son, moved to Clintonville, Ohio, studied & practiced, moved to an old boarding house in Guelph, Ontario, had my first gallery show, moved to the eastern slope of Mount Royal, in Montreal, Quebec, ate grapes & French bread & chocolate croissants on Rue Saint Denis, painted & improved, moved back to the states, to the southern tip of lake Huron, made sweet potato soup, studied & practiced ink drawing, made progress, moved to the Northern most part of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, played in 300 inches of snow, painted, made miso soup, moved to Syracuse, New York, studied & created, bought a German Shepard puppy, moved to the rural Illinois River valley, home-schooled my youngling, painted & studied, walked beside cornfields, moved to Madison, Wisconsin, rode bikes, volunteered for the Young Shakespeare Players, launched Fashion Refreshments, Ltd-up-cycled clothes & accessories, moved, moved, moved & landed in St Petersburg, Fl, still drawing & painting & making soup.
When I’m not doing those things, I’m looking for composition subjects, studying art & wellness & all kinds of other things, chopping vegetables, hanging out with my grown up kids & rearranging all the furniture.
