I grew up in New Jersey. One of my earlier memories is of drawing on the chalkboard walls of my bedroom, as high as I could reach. Drawing this way was also a dance, and it was lovely to be enveloped by what I made. So I kept drawing, got a BA from Rutgers College, then crossed the river to study painting and drawing at the NY Studio School.

I spent many years working as an illustrator, mostly for the NY Times, but also for magazines, children’s books, corporations and non profits. I enjoyed the tight deadlines, and the challenge of translating difficult and varied topics into images. Now in Western Massachusetts, I have a larger studio where I have been able to deepen and expand my creative practice, and tell my own stories in pictures.

My work is narrative, sometimes whimsical, sometimes a bit dark. I begin with stream of consciousness drawings. Often they include animals and people, or people-animals, that interact in an imagined world of plants and objects and architecture. With these as jumping off points, I make woodblock prints, etchings and paintings. I’m interested in characters, emotion, interaction, and the possibility of multiple meanings.