I am an artist who works with fabric, thread and a home sewing machine to create contemporary quilts that are non-representational abstractions.  My pieces are driven by the personal pleasure that meticulous work gives me, labor that requires time and dedication as well as the challenge that results in seeing what large dimensions can be reached or how much accumulation I can generate from these small actions and simple materials.

My compulsion to create has encompassed everything from creating macramé wall-hangings, to seed beadwork, to printmaking, to painting acrylic flowers on my sister's Volkswagen (as a child). I have also always incorporated texture into my work, including in ceramics and glass.

I wanted to create paintings, but without using materials associated with western art history.  As a feminist, I wanted to use materials that were historically associated with women's work.  My work challenges the idea of what paintings can be – what can be called a painting.  My aesthetic is not based in tradition, but firmly based in modernism, Japanese minimalism, and architecture.  As an improvisational quilter, I can achieve my desired end.  Quilting, for me, serves the purpose of tactile meditation while solving a puzzle and making a thing that didn’t exist before.

My new body of work encompasses three-dimensional texture in quilting and curves – curves being a very difficult counter-intuitive style of piecing.  It has been very satisfying to conquer both styles, with a lot more coming in the future.

Art is my life, and it has saved my life through the years.  I wouldn’t be able to survive without it.