About

Throughout my adult life I have sought to go willingly into the unknown. This is an ongoing recognition that embracing my own vulnerabilities allows me to fully release my spirit, and in turn, my imagination.

I don’t know where my life, or my work, will take me. Like my paintings sometimes things work out and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes relationships are in conflict and yet manage to hang together. Many questions have no final answer. This is the process: to somehow manage to be in the deep end of what is not being seen. Isn’t this where we experience the creative chaos necessary to allow ourselves to see what is possible? Isn't this how we grow? Isn't this how we awaken?

My job as an artist is ultimately to listen. I then respond. I play. I express, hide, repress, awaken, retreat, and express, again. Each mark, each gesture, is intuitive - a moment of experimentation that begets another. Each artwork is the unknown communicating itself into being.

BIO

I'm an American/British visual artist who lives and works in Scotland on the site of what was once an 18th century woollen mill. I began my art career over 15 years ago working with textiles, but drastically changed my practice upon my move to the UK in 2009, with a shift towards mixed media and painting, which is now my primary work. My studio, which sits along the Endrick River and within our slightly ramshackle ½ acre vegetable garden, provides a welcome retreat to create work which is informed by the natural process of growth and of the often unruly and strange beauty that exists in our world.

B. 1964 USA

EDUCATION
1999 Certificate in Interior Design, Inchbald School of Design, London, UK
1995 M.Ed, Creative Arts in Learning, Lesley University, Cambridge, USA
1986 B.F.A. Theatre Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA

ADDITIONAL STUDIES
2017 Explorations in Abstraction, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow UK
2008 Fashion as Art, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Lido Open Lido Stores, Margate, UK
2024 Somewhere Between the Soul and the Centre of the Earth, Solo Exhibition, iota, Glasgow, UK
2024 Visual Arts Scotland Centenary Exhibition, Edinburgh, UK
2023 Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, London, UK
2022 Reverb, Visual Arts Scotland Annual Exhibition, Global
2021 Self Seeded, Forth Valley Open Studios, UK
2018 The Heart Takes a Walk, Forth Valley Open Studios, UK
2015 Fusion Gallery 23, Lancaster, UK
2014 Arctic Resonance, The Music Room, Lancaster, UK
2014 Materiality, Ann Street Gallery, New York, USA

PUBLICATIONS
Create Magazine,Women's Issue 2020 (web version), Honourable mention
Thalia Magazine, The Fragment Issue, September 2019
Art North ISSUE 2 | SUMMER 2019 Ripped and Torn

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Harvard University

MEMBERSHIPS
Society of Scottish Artists
Visual Arts Scotland
Scottish Artist's Union