Northampton, MA, United States
Like many artists I see potential art materials in many things beyond traditional art making mediums...
About the artist
Joined In 2017
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About the artist
Joined In 2017
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Like many artists I see potential art materials in many things beyond traditional art making mediums, tools and supports. I use a variety of homemade tools to carve extra thick watercolor paper made by Strathmore at their old mill in Turners Falls. Color is added with paint, powders and pencils. I spend at least two or three months on each of my carvings. I find the work to be meditative and compelling, exciting at times, difficult at others, but a journey that I feel grateful to be on. I am always learning more and more about our precious nature. I hope you enjoy seeing my work and feel a little bit different the next time you take a walk in nature.
I also create using watercolor and acrylic paintings using traditional supports and materials.
I have been interested in natural forms for as long as I can remember. I especially love flowers, sticks, nests, birds, feathers and objects I find on my daily walks along the trails and rivers near my home. My interest peaks as natural objects all around us begin to take on unusual characteristics such as twisted leaves, partially eaten pine cones, leaves trampled and imprinted in the mud with ice forming and concealing, scrolled bark. To me, nature become truly magnificent as objects ...
I began my teaching career when I was 10 years old, inviting neighborhood kids to art classes on our front porch for 10 cents a class. Eventually after my own education at Pratt Institute, I spent the next 46 years as a Professor of Art and Design at Rochester Institute of Technology and Shippensburg University.
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
Degree: Master of Fine Arts. May 1979 thesis: The Paper Matrix major: Printmaking; minor: Education grades: 3.9/4.0 GPA. Graduate Assistant Scholarship
Pratt institute of technology, Brooklyn, New York 11205
Degree: Bachelor of fine Arts, June 1972, graduated with honors
major: Art Education, minor: Studio Art
grades: 3.7/4.0 GPA. Dean’s List–Pratt institute Scholarship
2023
Northampton Senior Center, Juried Solo Exhibition, Natural Connections
2022
Hosmer Gallery, Forbes Library, Juried online Exhibition
Northampton- Western MA Juried Biennial Exhibition
2020
Pleiades Gallery of Contemporary Art, Chelsea, N.Y.C., Invitational
2019
Elms College Two-Person Exhibition, Chicopee, MA, Seeking Light
Mass Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary, Northampton, MA, Solo Exhibition, Following My Eyes
2018
A.P.E Three-Person Exhibition, Northampton MA, Finding Light
Mass Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary, Northampton, MA, Solo Exhibition, Natural Growth
Hosmer Gallery, Forbes Library, Juried Two-Person Exhibition, Northampton, MA, Fences
2017
Mill 180 Solo Exhibition, Easthampton, MA Delectables
Mill 180 Group Exhibition, Easthampton, MA Plein Aire Paintings
2016
Hope and Feather’s Art Gallery, Amherst, MA Solo Exhibition Ripe to Rotten
Historic Northampton, Solo Exhibition, Award, Solo Exhibition Toys: Yesterday and Today
Westhampton, MA Memorial Library, Solo Exhibition Shack Time
2015
Paradise Valley: Invitational
2014
Pleiades Gallery of Contemporary Art, Chelsea, N.Y.C., Invitational
2013
Hosmer Gallery, Forbes Library, Northampton, MA...