I am a fine craft artist, a maker of jewelry.  My current work focuses on giving my own modern twist to the centuries old art of making wealth easily portable in the form of precious metal chains. I was immensely fortunate to grow up learning to make things – bread, clothes, buildings, art – and I take pride in being a maker in the tradition of generations of people who lavishly and richly adorn the items of everyday life. My jewelry is meant to be touched and worn, and can only be fully enjoyed and appreciated if the hands are involved as well as the eyes.

I am driven by a passion for process and the challenge to expand the boundaries of what has existed before in handmade Felt. I strive to bring art and craft together in expression and function that combines to create artistic landscapes of texture and color. In exploring ways to make completely new Felt fabrics, I push the limits of scale, size and balance.,

I love to laugh, and if something strikes me as funny, strange or ironic - it becomes fodder for my work. Phrases with double meanings, odd visual juxtapositions, humorous songs, domestic squabbles and everyday absurdities all inspire me. I especially like to take intimate, personal objects, familiar to everyone and to alter them to make them absurdly personal and thought-provoking.

My work is in Tapestry, Graphic,  and other medias.

I  am often inspired by the scocial political issues, the grand nature and the old myths that helpe form us.

I use any media I find best can express what I want to tell.

I work in hand-sewn beadwork and mixed media. My work is conceptual and content driven, often narrative, but can also be formed by the thoughts and meditations that occur during the building of a piece. As I work I often find the subject to be more complex than it first appeared and intertwined with other issues and ideas. Those additional details often find a way into the artwork leaving a piece that is conceptual, content driven and often much more layered in m