As a full time artist and a retired Architect, my training, my experiences and my life all inform my fabric art. I explore intangible qualities like color, light and movement; they are all vital to my compositions. Free-hand curves cut from my fabrics add to the flow of the work. Color adds mood and emotional tone, lighting contrasts, a sense of movement and depth and, above all, great beauty to my pieces.

My most exciting and successful designs are those I do quickly, intuitively, chasing a fleeting image --- and trying to realize its sensibility and beauty in the final pieced and stitched object. I will continue working in an improvisational manner in future work. Meanings proliferate as the viewer studies each of my pieces.

For me as a fabric artist, architectural design also inspires many of the massing and perspective choices I make. The regularity of patterning appeals very directly to me, whether found in old quilting designs or in my creation of repeating images and new interpretations.