Artist's Statement: I work with a variety of media with a particular interest in sculpture. I often use assembly in my process and enjoy the layering and combining intrinsic to print making. I appreciate the element of surprise, and rarely make a detailed plan. I try to balance the need for control, which requires technical skill and practice, with a sense of play and joy when I work.

I make art to please myself, but art is also a form of communication. I want to share the sense of wonder and mystery I feel, and I hope to capture your attention and to take you somewhere different with each piece that I share.

Background: I have always been immersed in art; my grandfather was a painter by profession and I liked to draw as a child. However I did not enjoy art classes, came to dislike drawing, and abandoned a college art major (for computer science!) after only eighteen months. "Making things" was a weekend hobby until I moved to Port Townsend in 1998, when making art again became a daily activity.

Since 1998 I have somewhat overcome my dislike for art instruction, and benefited from many regional art classes and workshops as well as two months of painting and sculpture in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. I am a member of Corvidae Press, a fine arts printmaking guild, and I am a regular volunteer at Northwind Arts Center.