Welcome

For me, making art is about expressing my personal experience of the human condition through the relationship between materials and perception. Sometimes, materials beget certain ideas and curiosities; other times ideas and experiences call for particular materials.

I have an MFA in Fiber and Decorative Design and was a home and personal accessories designer for over 20 years.

Almost all my fine art work is an exploration of the tension between timelessness and impermanence, fragility and resilience, and the physical body and the spiritual self–I find this tension extremely poignant and I like to explore these themes by developing different bodies of work using a variety of media.

Aesthetically, I’m inspired by the bold totemism and symbolic focus of tribal and folk art and by the flat, filled picture plane of medieval art. I believe these artistic traditions express a focus on the elemental aspects of existence and use art as a vehicle to make sense or make magic–something I strive for in my own work.

I’m also a writer and I have a weekly newsletter on Substack called The Pink Teacup. I write about art & spirit, what it means to be fully expressed, and how our imaginations can help save the world.

I live and create in Taos, New Mexico with my husband and the spirits of our late cat, Kitty Girl Johnson, and our late Pit Bull, Lucy Loo the Pitty Boo. I miss them both terribly because they were perfect in every way.

Below is a short video of my front studio and a few more of my life here in Taos.

I’m so glad you’re here.