About Me

I’m an American artist working in San Francisco. I’ve lived here all my adult life. I run errands and come upon another hill and so it begins. I’m greedy for the view. Drawing. Painting. Puttering with my set up, I ponder why the washing machine is so near, why I have so little space, and why does my art studio feel like the garage? I’m obsessed with water-based paints and matte polymer mixtures because I love their look on paper but dislike it behind glass.

I was trained to draw an object or a figure as if I were touching it and could feel its weight and edge. Extending the method to landscapes, I’ve had to explore questions like “How do I touch an incline?” “How do I reach around the volumes of buildings perched vertically, rising uphill for ten blocks?” “Can my experience of the terrain be recorded in a gesture, as if I were drawing a person?”

In group exhibits, of San Francisco, beginning in 2000 I showed mainly figures like at Somar Gallery’s 2002 exhibit Ten which celebrated 23rd Street Studio life drawing where I kicked off a dozen years of rust. I switched focus to landscapes and several of these were hung at Studio Gallery SF in Bay Area themed group shows beginning in 2012. Art enthusiasts told me to keep making cityscapes. I worked in dry pastels. Loved them but grew tired of the frames.

Durham NC born and St. Louis MO raised, I hold a BA in Visual Art, Brown University, Providence RI.