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During the two years spent at Columbia, I enjoyed art history courses like Barbara Novak's "American Painting of the Nineteenth Century" as well as studio classes in Etching and Intaglio with Tony Harrison. Having a group of peers available to look at and discuss one's work was an important feature as was the Visiting Artist program.
Since then I have continued to work with varying degrees of intensity. Having been a single mother at the time I attended Columbia, the focus of my post-Columbia years turned to my daughter. I have worked full-time at a regular job and continued to paint as time allows.
Making paintings and looking at art are the underlying theme of my life. They ground me and are the process through which I filter my experience of the world. I continue to expand that experience through travel, especially to Italy, where I find resonance in the works of Fra Angelico, Giotto, and many others, as well as in the landscape and ancient history.
Both the process and subject of my work are rooted in the nature and history of things and the impact of light and space on experience.