While in studying English and Plant Science at University of New Hampshire, I took Sunday painting classes at the Durham Grange. The teacher was a British man and I was the only student under 60 years of age. Then, when I moved to Pennsylvania, I learned some more at the Baum School in Allentown, first with Joe Kotula and later with Dana Van

I have lived in the Lehigh Valley for more than thirty years, first writing garden books and then teaching adult and family literacy, but making images of one kind or another for all that time. It is only since 2008 that I have been painting more deeply, with joy, and as if it really matters.