Between the time I was born in St Cloud, New Jersey and my final move to San Rafael, California, I’ve lived in New York, Munich, London, the West Indies, and San Francisco. I received a BFA in painting from the University of Michigan which wasn’t of much use in my career as a fashion accessories designer. The only way I knew how to be fully employed as a designer was to found my own manufacaturing companies, in London and San Francisco respectively. I closed my last manufacturing business in order to design, make, and teach polymer clay jewelry.
I’ve slowly migrated from polymer clay to mixed media art over the last few years. My art has a French accent because the 3 mos I spend in France at La Cascade each year has left its mark on my work. La Cascade is a house that my husband and I renovated for artists and their students to make art and enjoy French village life. Each year I find new inspiration there. Last year it was a water color series of 17th century forged door knockers.
My early oil paintings have been exhibited in The Heller Gallery and The Amel Gallery in NYC. My polymer clay jewelry has been offered in galleries around the country and is in the permanent collections of the Newark Museum of Art and the Racine Art Museum. My mixed media work has been exhibited in Galerie L’Art Vivant in Couillure, France.
March 9, 2012
Finding a place to sell art with vintage objects as subject.
March 1, 2012
I’ve been looking for a way to hang a flat masonite panel. I spent a morning looking in hardware stores and lumber yards but is was in Michaels, a big craft supply emporium, where I found the perfect thing. It’s called a doll pin stand. I looked at the doll pin stand, (not knowing what [...]
February 19, 2012
Anthony Trollope, a nineteenth century English author with great insight into human character wrote: “His mind was not capacious, but such as it was it was his own, and he knew how to use it.” What I like about the quotation is that it reminds me that it isn’t the tool, but how it’s used [...]