About the Artist and Her Work

I am a 41 year old artist with a bachelor's degree in art and chemistry from Wellesley College.  I work for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to help ensure the continued healing of the natural world.  I see the EARTH as female and embrace the concept of Gaia.  I recently adopted a part-time schedule at EPA so I could spend more time creating art with a similar intention of bringing healing to the wounded images of women. For over 10 years, I have been working in the medium of collage in a way that results in realistic images.  These images are often narrative, suggesting a journey or adventure in progress for the women I depict.  These women are often representations of Goddesses, heroines, or female psychological archetypes. My subjects come from ancient civilizations as well as current cultures around the world.  I want to bring these elements to light and to life, to make them more accessible to us.  For example, "Andromeda" is inspired by the ancient Greek myth, but instead of being tormented by a dragon from the sea, this Andromeda realizes that her dragon is within her.  If she can come to terms with her inner dragon, she can follow her dreams, represented by the comet blazing behind her.  My images combine elements of the natural world with symbols of the metaphysical or enchanted realm, since it is my belief that we are imbued with the magic of the unseen world. "Moon Meditation" is an example of this.  The woman gazes up at the moon and becomes transformed.  She becomes one with the Earth: as stream flows over her waist, and plants sprout from her hips and her head.  Like the EARTH,  she is creative, fecund, and alive with possibilities.