Charged with an unexplained need to draw since the first grade, my work begins with an urge to simply make a mark. A drawn line is a living thing, as I see it. A creeping line is a kind of rhizome from which the totality of my work derives. Decade by decade, meaning within the work is developed and transformed, growing through study, travel, and experience, and finds expression in the acts of making and marking.

I learned more about natural systems taking college classes in geology and natural history. This led to dozens of landscape inspired cross sections depicting accumulation, decomposition, and return.

Eighteen years designing natural history exhibits for museums and nature centers all over the U.S. furthered my interests in ecology and animal morphology. It was fascinating to participate in field study work with noted paleontologists like the Smithsonian’s Dr. Scott Wing and anatomist Dr. Ken Rose from Johns Hopkins University, as they uncovered fossils and plant relics from ancient earth layers, discovering and interpreting prehistoric finds.

My personal visual language functions to combine basic knowledge of natural systems with a life long passion for science fiction and surrealism. The opportunities for transformation, pictorial combinations, and deep dive drawing here find fertile ground, generating an unexpected metamorphosis of image and being.