Growing up in southern California I was told by my fourth grade teacher that I couldn’t sing. Still I was drawn to major in music in college and ended up spending the first half of the 1990s singing semi-professional opera. My kindergarten teacher gave me an "unsatisfactory" in Cut and Paste and I believed her for 50 years. Now I am a mixed-media artist and work in a library. So what better canvas for my art than discarded books? My life long love of journaling led me to artist journals and altered books, followed by assemblage art.
My inspiration comes from rusted found objects, vintage correspondence, and old books. I am a hunter-gatherer, seeking out the precious (to me) detritus of a bygone age. I can be found at thrift shops, flea markets, jumble sales and walking down the street with my eyes on the ground searching for new treasure. Everything either becomes part of my art or provides inspiration for it.
