Art has always been a central part of my life. From the time I could pick up a paint brush I studied with Alton S. Tobey, a PWA artist who taught me the formal aspects of creating art including color, composition and form. Above all, I learned how to use art to express my inner being, and my reactions to the world around me.

Growing up I remember tinkering with glass in one form or another. My fondest memories are collecting broken shards along the shore and working on a small bench with my father in the basement of our family home making stained glass windows for our front door, one for each season.

I have benefited from my proximity to the UrbanGlass Studio in downtown Brooklyn about 50 miles from where I now live, an easy commute notwithstanding New York metropolitan area notorious traffic snarls.

I have been fortunate to study with Klaus Moje, Jeremy Lepisto and Mel George, Kirstie Rae, Cappy Thompson, Dorothy Hafner and Scott Chaseling. Although I have been most persistently supported and inspired by Robert Panepinto and his crew, my spirit has been touched by the multitude of talented artists who use UrbanGlass as their primary studio.

My relationship to art has been intensified and enriched by education: I attended the New York School of Interior Design; obtained a BA in Museum Studies with an emphasis on world religions from Salem College in West Virginia, and an M.S. in Art Therapy from The College of New Rochelle in New York.

My work embraces the Sanskrit circle, the mandala, central to the practice of meditation, which helps me to focus on spiritual dimensions.

While the forms and colors in my work will surely evolve, the spiritual connection I attempt to capture is the foundation on which I want to live my life.