About

Education:

Rhode Island School of Design:  Bachelor of Fine Arts; Master of Arts in Teaching; European Honors Program, Rome

Pacific Basin School of Textile Arts:  repeat pattern design

School of Visual Arts:  graphic design; hand lettering design

Career:

Art Teacher:  Providence, Rhode Island Public Schools
Developed curriculum and taught art history and drawing and painting to high school juniors and seniors

Designer of Printed Textiles: New York, NY
Worked in-house and freelance to style and create printed textiles and paper products, from producing original art, to overseeing production of finished goods for home furnishings, apparel, and accessories.  My work included travel to France, England, Japan, and Korea.

Some Clients:
Brunschwig & Fils, F. Schumacher, Scalamandre, Williams-Sonoma, Wathne, Ralph Lauren, Vera Bradley, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Caspari

Artist’s Statement:

“Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.”

George Santayana

I’ve always been drawn to color and shapes and patterns. I can't remember a time when I wasn’t making drawings.  Some of my earliest memories are of the wallpapers and textiles that were a part of my everyday world.  In college I studied painting and illustration.  A few years later I made a short animated film, which was shown at the San Francisco Film Festival.  Making that animation reawakened my interest in repeat patterns.

During the last couple of years much of my work has been framed by the experience of being inside looking out. Whether I’m working from direct observation or from some combination of memory and imagination, I observe the complexities inherent in the convergence of the man-made and the natural worlds, and aim to convey this complexity in an uncomplicated style.