My art employs design, line, texture, and color, to communicate personal insights and emotions. A limited color palette of complementary, analogous, and neutral colors helps to focus the viewer on the marks made. Complexity is present in layers of scale and intensity. I explore the most basic form of human communication, mark making. My acrylic paintings convey high level concepts of both science and spirituality. I have a unique style of visual communication and aim to depict aspects of our shared humanity.

 

As a child, I made art whenever I could, I got lost in the process, it was my bliss! While an undergrad in a BFA program, I studied pen calligraphy with a wonderful professor who taught us by having us make abstract ink drawings using the marks that are contained in letters of the chancery cursive style. I was drawn to the texture and pattern that resulted from these exercises and appreciated how each person in the class had a unique and distinctive “hand.” A comment by the professor stating “You have a good sense of design” was a turning point for me. I created abstract calligraphic art for years, then started incorporating writing marks into my paintings that were not legible as a known language but were my unique language. Pattern and intuitive mark making are also present in my still life paintings; these intuitive marks are the thread that binds all of my work.

 

My  interest in visual communication draws on my background as a university level art educator, graphic designer, and instructional designer, pushing me to envision complex ideas in a most accessible visual form.

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Education

• Massachusetts College of Art and Design, BFA

• UMass Boston, M.Ed,, Instructional Design

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Experience

• Instructional Designer at Northeastern University, Boston, MA (retired)

• Senior Adjunct Lecturer at Northeastern University, Boston MA

• Graphic design for creative clients

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Contact me for inquiries and prices.
I would love my art to enhance your space!