About Me

I was raised in Montauk, and after marrying I raised my own family in East Hampton. With one master's degree in Education and another in Computer Technology, I spent twenty-two years as an art teacher in the East Hampton public school system.

Teaching meant constantly expanding my own knowledge of different mediums and techniques. I believe in being an educated artist: if you don't know how to use it, build it, or create it, then you should try to learn how. That habit is what eventually led me to my current passion: glass fusing.

I remember my first glass fusing classes with the Vermont glass artist Genevieve Cole very fondly. Using scientific principles to manipulate the medium and build a landscape out of glass still fills me with awe. I love photography, drawing and painting in traditional mediums, but glass fusing lets me experiment further while still arriving at an Impressionist, painterly style.

As an art teacher I value the process of creating as much as the end product. Glass can be recycled endlessly — fused, melted, broken into pieces as many times as needed — to start again with a vision that may be fulfilled, or, sometimes better still, not matched at all by what comes out.

My most valuable influence is my father, who passed away in 1996. He told me when I was a young girl that art isn't all in one direction. That basic truth has proved itself in my practice and motivates me to use all the mediums available when I'm planning a vision in glass. Letting the process of art lead me in many directions, I've succeeded in creating works that still bring me home.