“I have been a resident of North Carolina since 1976. I am primarily a self taught artist with an educational background in english and theology. I began making improvisational quilts in 1994 for which I received a visual artist fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council in 1996. This phase in my development as an artist culminated in the exhibition, “Parable Quilts”, which was jointly funded and shown by the South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, NC and the Gallery of Art & Design at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Significant group exhibitions include the 1996 and 1999 North Carolina Museum of Art’s triennial survey of North Carolina artists.

A major turning point occurred in my work the summer of 1998 during a 3 month residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. Since then my work has ventured beyond the quilt making tradition into broader territory, where I am continuously challenged to find a point of balance between visual material, craft based work, intuitive knowledge and conceptual practice.

Utilizing a variety of media including photography, embroidery, sewing, crochet, installation, assemblage and film, my current interests are focused on pop and domestic culture and their roles as vehicles for relaying and exposing undercurrents of deep meaning and transformative passage.”