Education
- BA (Hons) Fine Art Textiles (Woven and Printed Textiles) U.K. 1978
- M Arch, University of New Mexico 1994
Design Employment
- Design Architect: Albuquerque, NM, Hanover, MA and Sarasota FL 1994-2008
- Cooper Creek Designs: Jewelry Design and Manufacture 2013-2014
- Working Artist 2018- present
Memberships
- Artists in Cellophane since 2018: Selected by:
- MFA, Boston,
- National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC,
- Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
- Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
- Art Center of Sarasota
- Gulf Coast Artists’ Alliance
- National Collage Society
- Sarasota Surface Design Guild
- WCA member since 2023
- SPAACES Sarasota, FL Please visit SPAACES Artists Studios and Gallery at www.spaces.art
- Arts Alliance, Sarasota, FL
Exhibitions
Art Center Sarasota: 2018-2021 juried shows:
Open Season, New Views, Work of the Heart, Natural Selection, Made Fresh, Unbound, Uncharted, The Big Show:
- Honorable Mention: Made Fresh, Juror: Marianne Chapel
- Award of Merit: The Big Show, Juror: Danny Odha
- Second Place: Unbound “Flotsam and The Little Fishes” Juror: Tom Stephens
- Uptown Gallery Sarasota, Dog Days of Summer 2019, Juror: Nathan Beard
- Emerging Artists Showcase Curated Exhibition, Fogartyville Sarasota, FL February 2019
- Cider Press Café, Exhibition Jan 2020,"A New Decade" St Petersburg, FL,
- Florida Textiles 2020. Juror: Cindy Bartosek March-August 2020 Florida CRAFT Art Gallery St Pete, FL
- Art Center Manatee, Member Show Dec 3-31, 2020 Juror: "Far from Home" Honorable Mention
- National Collage Society 2020 - 23rd Annual Small Format Exhibition Cash Prize Winner
- Art Center Manatee, "Port Meadow" Honorable Mention 12 x 12 show Jan 7, 2021
- Art Center Manatee, "Trees and Sky with Figure" Honorable Mention Local Inspirations Show 03/09/21
- St Pete ArtWORKS Featured Artist Feb-April 2020
- Las Lagunas Art Gallery "Textures, Patterns, Shapes or Forms" 2021 Online Exhibition published August 5, 2021
- St Pete ArtWORKS Featured Artist Nov 2-28, 2021 "Anything You Can Imagine is Real"
- Artist Exhibition, "alienlandscapes & inner visions" March 18- April 15, 2022 " Lexow Gallery, Unitarian Universalist Church, 3975 Fruitville Rd, Sarasota.
- St Pete ArtWORKS Featured Artist March 7-28, 2023 "Sleepers, Awaken!"
- Artist Residence at Art Ovation Hotel, Sarasota, Florida; Group Show with SLAMD Art Group May 7-May 28, 2023
- Artist Residence at Art Ovation Hotel, Sarasota, Florida; Show with Michael Stevenson, PHd
- Teaching: Workshop for Sarasota Surface Design Guild: Making Marks on Fabric/Deconstruction of that Fabric! Put it together again!
- Teaching assistant Sarasota Art Museum Class for Florida Art Educator Annual Conference: 2 sessions, Textiles Making: Embellished Brooches.
- Arcos Gaze Art Gallery 2 Month Residency and Art Show 3 MAN TEXTILE SHOW 320 Central Avenue Sarasota, FL. January & February 2024
- Studio at SPAACES 2087 Princeton ST. SARASOTA 34237 studio hours: Tuesday-Saturday 9;30-1;30 or by appointment 508-574-1146
Deliberate,
Assemblage 2020
objet trouve, silk fabric, dyed and polished cat skull, copper and glass beads
size of base approx 6" x 6" x 2"
…secondary imagination that” dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Biographia Literaria
Some Thoughts on Memory & Imagination
Early in the 19th century, Coleridge's discussion was on on how the mind perceives reality. Initially, he chooses to agree with David Hartley (David Hartley FRS was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology, 1705- 1757) that new thoughts are necessarily born out of existing ideas. However, in time, he moves away from this concept and posits that new realities emerge as people interact with nature. He asserts that human minds do not operate mechanically and are not dependent on an input of old thoughts for newer ideas to appear.
In psychology and the cognitive sciences, perception is the process of getting, interpreting, selecting, and organizing sensory information. It includes the collection of data from sense organs through to the interpretation made by the brain. ... Perception is a lot more than just "information coming in".
COMING SOON:
MAPS (New Series)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Biographia Literaria
Some Thoughts on Memory & Imagination
Early in the 19th century, Coleridge's discussion was on on how the mind perceives reality. Initially, he chooses to agree with David Hartley (David Hartley FRS was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology, 1705- 1757) that new thoughts are necessarily born out of existing ideas. However, in time, he moves away from this concept and posits that new realities emerge as people interact with nature. He asserts that human minds do not operate mechanically and are not dependent on an input of old thoughts for newer ideas to appear.
In psychology and the cognitive sciences, perception is the process of getting, interpreting, selecting, and organizing sensory information. It includes the collection of data from sense organs through to the interpretation made by the brain. ... Perception is a lot more than just "information coming in".
COMING SOON:
MAPS (New Series)