The prints and drawings on this website represent my twenty year career as a Bay Area professional artist and art educator.  Since receiving an MFA in Printmaking in 1984 from The Academy of Art in San Francisco, I have been teaching studio and digital art at various California Community Colleges. I have participated in numerous national and international juried exhibitions and have had artist-in-residencies at Kala Institute in Berkeley and Kalani Honua Cultural Retreat in Hawaii. I have also been a member of the California Society of Printmakers since 1992.

The guiding forces behind my work, particularly the mezzotints and  large-scale colored pencil drawings, are the subtleties and complexities of light, dark, and shadow as they interact with images of nature and objects in still life.  My ultimate goal is to create an intimate connection with the intrinsic animate and sensuous qualities of recurring images in my work such as magnolias, succulents, and palms. 
More recently, I have begun to work mostly in woodcut.  This has been an exciting process for me of letting go.  I am opening myself up to allowing the block of wood to participate more in the outcome of the piece.

I am currently involved in creating a body of work inspired by a trip to Bali late last year.  I am hoping to return there as an artist-in-residence some time this year.