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Distant Thoughts
Dusk Aproaching
Fields
of Trees
Green Light
Summer Blues
Shimmering Light
Salt Marsh Serenity
View from Pendleton
I began working as a professional artist in 1980 as a graphic designer
and then as an art director for the Genesis Project in New York City.
After a move to Cincinnati, Ohio, I free-lanced nationally and taught
graphic design at a local college. Since then I have worked in fiber art,
oil and pastel.
Along the way I noticed that I had become a landscape painter. I was continually drawn to pastoral scenes and natural images.
Nature is a place that I have always felt welcomed and at home – it’s a nurturing space, a soul place that can take me from the chaos of everyday life and offer hope. Nature reminds me that beauty exists, that there is more to life than war, injustice and poverty; that goodness is still rampant on the face of the earth.
Nature is a place where I can daily watch the unfolding of miracles and be present to the awesomeness of mystery. It’s where I observe the color and light and texture that informs and guides my painting. Painting the landscape, for me, is a way to be present to the unchanging truth of goodness and a means of expressing gratitude that our world is fertile and pregnant with life and beauty and hope.
Since a recent move to Boston I have been working mostly in pastels. They capture the softness and yet the depth of the landscape. The layering of colors along with the play between dark and light, allows these soft, chalk like sticks to create a variety of moods and feelings that speak in many voices.
EDUCATION
M.S. Communication Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
M.Ed. Boston University, Boston, MA
B.A. Boston University, Boston, MA
Boston University, School of Fine Arts
DeCordova Museum
Kay Hurley Studio
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
Art Academy of Cincinnati
EXHIBITS
10 Solo Exhibits, Essex Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio. December 2002- December
2004
Solo show: Fiber Art, Cincinnati Civic Garden Center: February, 1995
Liturgical Art: Broadway Presbyterian Church, New York City, First United
Presbyterian Church, Cambridge, Ma. Loveland Presbyterian Church, Loveland
Ohio
Gallery Representation
Golden Ram Gallery, Madiera, Ohio
Fig Leaf Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
WORK EXPERIEINCE
1996-Present J.E. & Z.B. Butler Foundation, New York, NY. Vice President
and Program Director
1987-1996 Antonelli College, Cincinnati, Ohio. Instructor
Taught several design classes, portfolio review and professional development
1982-1996 Free lance graphic designer. NY, Boston and Cincinnati
Worked with a variety of clients in three major cities on logo development,
annual reports, advertising and brochures.
1978-1982 Genesis Project, New York, NY. Art Director.
Art directed all materials for educational support, a major motion picture
and advertisements.
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