My Mother encouraged me from a very young age to pursue an art career.
Although not a professional photographer, she had a press camera and
was frequently shooting the weddings of our family and friends.
I treasure the old photographs she took of us growing up and I like to think
I inherited my love of photography from her.
She traded her big old press camera in for a 35mm model she
gave me when I left for college.

 

I attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York for three years before
the desire to work and a job met head on.
My first job was doing paste-up and mechanicals for The National Lampoon Magazine.
I went on to work for Time Warner in their books division for a number of years before
they relocated from New York City to Virginia.
Moving to the West coast in 1978, I freelanced for 5 years at Landor Associates'
design offices on a ferry boat on the San Francisco Bay.
My style of illustration evolved from old work done at Time Life Books, cutting rubys,
and the graphic skills learned working on corporate branding accounts at Landor.

 

My art easily made the transition to digital, more so than myself. I didn't exactly
embrace computers and the impact they were having on my work, but I eventually broke down
and bought a Mac, changing my life and the creative direction it would take.

In 1992 while sharing an office in North Beach with a couple of designers and a writer,
I read an arcticle about a book called Wishcraft. Along with a few other women, we met
around our conference table once a month, doing the footwork
that would result in each of us actualizing our respective goals.

 

In 96' I moved north from San Francisco to Southern Oregon driven by the cost of
living and renting in the Bay Area, and my desire to live in the country.
Recently I came across one of the Wishcraft excercises I did in April of 94' titled
describe your perfect life.... I remember at the time feeling silly doing that one, but looking back
on what I wrote 5 years later, I realized I was living it, right down to the chickens.