My main intent is to create something of beauty. Using the California coastal area as inspiration, my quilts reflect a love of nature. In combining painting with fabric techniques, I am working toward a rich surface. The texture of the commercial fabrics enhances the colors and painterly textures of the painting. Adding quilting gives the work a relief structure with line work like drawing over the color. The play of the quilting lines against both the piecing and painting adds an exciting visual element and suggests other layers of meaning. If the viewer looks deeper than the surface richness, the elements used can be interpreted with symbology from several cultures giving a reverence to nature.


Selected One-Person Exhibitions
Thimble Creek, Walnut Creek, CA
Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA
New Pieces, Berkeley, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
''Visions,'' San Diego, CA
''Art Quilt International,'' Mountain View, CA
''Quilters Unlimited,'' Kansas City, MO
and many others

Collections/Commissions
Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, OR
Museum of the American Quilter's Society, Paducah, KY
Valley Oak Dental Group, Danbury, CT

Awards
First Place1995, Second Place 1994, First Place 1988; American Quilter's Society
First Small Art 1993, First Innovative Pieced 1991, Honorable Mention 1992