After graduation from college, I continued my education in art by enrolling at the Art Student's League of New York City, training in fine illustration under the late Frank J. Reilly. Though I earned my living as a commercial artist with my own studio, I continued exploring reproductive processes that could be applied to fine art. Toward that end I took courses and workshops at the Center for Book Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology, as well as the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York. The classes were chosen to enhance knowledge of various techniques and I continue to work, experiment, absorb, learn, observe and practice—all characteristics of curiosity and the creative mind.
I have always been interested in environment and conservation matters since my Mother, a Biology teacher, introduced me to that world as a youngster. In her days in the New York City school system, science teachers made the effort to introduce the city children to the world outside of their cement and brick cocoon. There was limited access to the "country" in those days and terrariums and borrowed animals from the local zoo helped illuminate this other life for the inhabitants of the urban canyons.
Continual exposure to the zoos, the science museums, the planetarium and allied facilities deepened my respect for our environment and our relationship to this earth. I have gradually transferred my professional expertise to this passion and express my concerns through my artwork.
The Narrative Collage Collection reflects this philosophy. The majority of the pieces have central to their design, ideas examining biospheric balance, interspecies relationships, and other themes illuminating the delicate balance on our galactic ship—earth.
