Since the dawn of civilization, people have been compelled by some inner drive to create. Even though early man didn’t know from minute to minute if he would eat or be eaten, he was driven to create beautiful magical images of his world. In order to make these images, he devised implements like pigment and brushes, from elements in the environment…so strong is the need to create.

From my earliest memories, this creative force is a defining part of me. As a young child growing up in Brooklyn, I spent hours making things out of anything I could find. After hundreds of tissue paper flowers, dolls with exotically painted faces, sketch pads filled with everyday objects, in sixth grade I began attending The Brooklyn Museum Art School. I fell in love with painting. Fortunately, Abraham Lincoln High School, in Brooklyn, offered an outstanding art program. I discovered I loved every aspect of art from advertising to sculpture to printmaking. While still attending high school, I received a scholarship to NYU painting classes.

All along, I was learning “how to use the elements art”, now I needed to discover “what I wanted to use art for”. Needing to know more about the world, I went to Hunter College in NYC for my undergraduate degree, then to Brooklyn College for an MA in art. I started teaching art and realized that teaching is a creative endeavor. Along with techniques and materials, I was really teaching creative thinking and problem solving. With the idea in mind that art is a creative thing and problem solving, I began doing interior and graphic design. The same elements apply in a room or graphic material as in a painting or piece of sculpture.

When asked what medium I work with, my response is “whatever best conveys my idea”. Once again, I am creating images out of things I find. I love the sculptural shapes found in packing material and cardboard, ordinary stuff found in our environment. Since my work incorporates the human condition and nature, these ordinary objects play the role of both the “how” and the “what” of my work.

The content of my work falls into two major areas: about women and about nature.

about women explores and examines the nature of just being a woman. The pieces look at both the physical and emotional changes that take place over a lifetime as well as relationships and roles women take on. about nature explores not only nature's beauty and structure but nature's relationship to man.

The material I use in the creation of each piece is based on the concept of that piece and how I think I can best convey the concept visually. Cardboard and packing material have interesting sculptural textures and shapes that pop out from the 2 dimension surface to physically break the picture plane. This movement off the picture plane moves the image out into our space.