In hand or machine embroidery, felting and/or stitched beadwork my primary artistic focus is color and color transitions. I use thread, beads and fabrics as if they were paint, overlaying and shading and with hundreds of closely hued thread spools and/or beads. Color is important to me and I often see and express more colors than are technically existent in the actual subject and delight in moving gradually from one color or shape to another.

In machine embroidery my primary artistic focus is color and color transitions. I begin with my own digitally manipulated photography printed onto canvas backed cotton fabric then freeform stitched with hundreds of colors of sewing threads. The scene takes on a life of its own often deviating from the original photograph. The threads are used as a paint palette resulting in a scene entirely of stitching. The finished piece is either stitched onto suede cloth which is then laced around padded acid free backing and framed in a wooden shadowbox or used as the focal point for a wall quilt.

I have also expanded into oil painting with or without encaustic focusing on expressionistic pet portraits as well as abstract subjects. The color and texture transitions that are a signature in my fiber work also transpose to the oils.