During my childhood in Queens, New York, every Friday night was an adventure. My grandfather, who was a tailor in the city’s garment center, would bring home a new stack of fabric swatches for me. Although they were all brown, grey, or black, with variations of tweed, herringbone or stripe, to me they were a world of color and design. I would sit and arrange these pinked rectangles for hours. To this day, the feel and look of fabric brings the same excitement.

My father’s hobby was oil painting, but he discouraged me from trying. Instead, he encouraged the paint-by-number thing. Thankfully, my grandmother rescued me by teaching me the basics of crewel work, embroidery and needlepoint, and I pursued these hobbies through out my youth and young adulthood.

After graduating college with a degree in mathematics, I became one of the computer industry’s first programmers. A successful career as a systems analyst and technical writer, combined with marriage and raising two children left little time for other creative outlets. Even so, I was always working on a sewing project.

In the early 1980s, after a bout with meningitis, I left the business world and joined community activities. I also took a basic quilting class. Totally unable to make points match or stripes line up, I learned to make art quilts, first flat, then embellished, then three-dimensional. I took courses and workshops with wonderful artists and sculptors, but stayed determined to find my own voice and develop my own style.

For the last 15 years, I have been a studio fiber artist in New Jersey, working in a “dry” studio for sewing and a “wet” studio for felting and teaching.  My current creations are fiber sculpture and installations combining various fiber techniques.  My work is held in corporate and private collections and has appeared in magazines, galleries and museums, and dozens of juried and invitational shows, including solo shows. I also design wearable art and ownFiberArtSpace, a school teaching fiber art skills.

My art is an emotional response to nature’s cycles and organic forms. I experiment, change directions, work intuitively, and don’t like to repeat myself. The work is evolving, always changing---like me, a work in progress.