Making art has been a lifelong passion of mine. I learned in courses and workshops in communities where I lived- upstate New York, the Boston area and the Washington DC area. From the late seventies on, I have spent time every year in Wellfleet on Cape Cod, and have been creating art inspired by the Outer Cape nearly that long. I am drawn to the often dramatic changes in light, clouds, wind, and tides, and their effects on colors, shapes and shadows among marshes, dunes and shorelines. In 2015 I purchased a home with a studio in Wellfleet and now spend part of the year there and part in my other home in Alexandria, Virginia, exhibiting in both communities.

For many years, I painted almost exclusively in watercolors, enjoying their unique and fresh qualities, as well as the ease of carrying them when painting outdoors, en plein air. More recently, and with more time and the studio on the Cape, I have again taken up oil painting, still largely working en plein air, and continuing to relish in the challenge of painting a landscape even as the sun, clouds, light and tides change. I also now take photos that I think will inspire me in creating monotypes, the “painterly prints". Using a photo as reference, and recalling the feeling of the scene, I paint on plexiglass, usually with small rollers, and then make just one image on a printing press. I find these works on paper to be very satisfying and evocative of the scenes that sparked them.