I worked for fourteen years as a sign painter and carpenter, built my own house. The learning of these trades helped me learn skills important to me as a visual artist.

Subject matter is inspired by emotions, events, and people of significance to my life, somewhat like a diary. I call my artwork my picture stories. I like to produce work that pleases me, then goes to live at other peoples' houses, perhaps meaning something entirely different to others than it does to myself. My pictures live on their own apart from me. 

Much of my work is concerned with the theme of waiting. In my diner pictures customers wait to have their coffee cup filled back up, the waitress waits to get off shift because her feet hurt. In my barn pictures, cows wait to be fed and milked while the farmer struggles with endless chores.

My work is all carved on one inch thick pine boards, then painted with acrylics and gold leafed. An inner gold leafed frame or copper completes the look of each piece.

I take pride in creating a quality product that will survive long past my lifetime.

WORK IN COLLECTIONS:

· Smithsonian Institute, White House Easter Egg Collection.

· American Museum in Britain, Bath, England.

· American Museum of Folk Art, NYC.

· High Museum, Atlanta, Ga.

· Absolut Vodka Collection, featured in an ad in Country Home Magazine, April 1990.

· N. Y. Historical Society, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y. 

· National Museum of Women and the Arts, Washington, D.C.

· Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, N.Y.

· Petullo Foundation, Milwaukee, WI

· Coca-Cola Company, originally commissioned for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.