“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.“
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
about me
I am an artist with a multi-disciplinary studio practice rooted in Portland, Maine, heavily inspired by both natural and cultivated ecosystems. All paintings and objects are made by hand in my studio. Originally a painter and printmaker, after a short stint living and working overseas I returned stateside to pursue her graduate degree at Cranbrook Academy of Art just outside of Detroit, Michigan. I have been working and living in Portland since my return in 1994. I returned to painting and drawing in 2018 and have continued to bounce between practices since that time, working on my ongoing “intimate universe” body of work.
An itinerant maker, strongly aligned with walking and adventuring in the field with fellow avocational & professional botanists and mycologists, I often take back small bits of nature not unlike a child. When I am not working in the studio I can be found enjoying near by or far flung hiking trails in any season, often on her knees photographing something small and wonderous. I also enjoy foraging/digging in the earth to harvest matsutake in the rich duft of pine/hemlock or picking berries in the heat of summer. I look longingly at other’s well-tended gardens but I am learning to love the imperfect re-wilded half-acre of native “weeds” in our yard and the creatures it brings. Our two children have fled the nest and are making a better world, from their own respective nests.
