Westie with Watermelon Print

While I am primarily a textile artist, I also explore how technology can create art using A/I software. My physical art combines my love of fabric art techniques with a serious bead addiction to create unique, highly embellished, expressive works of art. My work contains images of people, places, and things I find meaningful and important in my world, embellished to the hilt! Additionally, I also explore drawing, painting, mixed media, and digital embroidery as part of living the creative life. I live in Reading, Massachusetts with a wonderful assortment of critters that include dogs, cats, and parrots, some of which have appeared in my artwork. I teach Visual Art to the best, most creative and fun middle schoolers in the world at W.S. Parker Middle School, also in Reading. I also teach textile workshops and art classes to adults, and have taught a course in Art Quilting at Massachusetts College of Art. Since the age of 35 I've fought an ongoing battle with autoimmune disease and see creativity, both my own and that of my students, as a way to elevate the soul out of the continual discomfort that this disease brings.