I came to art through the natural world with parents calling my attention to sunsets, thunderheads, and Dakota Sandstone, all scattered across the Kansas prairie.
Formal training recast those observations into the language of line, shape, value, color, and how we read three-dimensional space through light and shadow.
But it was the artists’ book that turned my aesthetic world upside down: text/image — form/content — metaphor — and forever after, every surface a “page.”
My husband Ron and I live in Miltonvale, Kansas, and are renovating a brick building that holds a century of history, my studio, and a bicycle shop.
Most Thursdays I draw with the Kansas Figure Drawing Group at The Temple, Salina, Kansas. And for many summers I joined art colleagues at Westmont College, Montecito, California, where we immersed ourselves in an intensive printmaking residency. Mostly I find myself making, and am grateful for the inclination and resources that have allowed me an artist’s life.
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