My art-making practice has ebbed and flowed over the years.
I was my late husband’s caregiver for the last several years of his life. It was an all-encompassing experience that left little room for anything else.
But also, I do other things. In 2016 I helped found—and am still the outreach director for—an air quality advocacy organization. What we do is deeply meaningful and important to me personally.
I live in rural Humboldt County, California, about 300 miles north of the San Francisco Bay Area.
My transatlantic connection goes back to the 90s. One highlight of my time in the UK was getting to study a majority of Mary Delany’s original nearly 1,000 “paper mosaicks” in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum.
Back in the day, my paper mosaic collages won awards and were included in gallery and museum shows on the West and East Coasts of the US. Images of them are still featured and used in publications in the US and UK.
Over time, I also drifted into the world of artist’s books, and these have been shown here in the US and in the UK and Australia. Zebra Crossing Picture Factory was what I called my long-time studio. The Paper Chipmunk Press is my bookmaking alter ego.
My art-making more ebbs than flows these days, but I am still rarely far from a good pair of scissors, things to cut up, and at least one hand-bound sketchbook. I also still have my old studio space and spend time there whenever I can.