About the Artist.

Studying and promoting decorative arts was a major part of my museum career and piqued my imagination since I was a child - Celebrating the balance of form and function embedded in our lives, and intersecting from culture to culture. My personal work is an investigation of the narratives that motifs bear in the rhythm of textile patterns, tender threads of metal or silk, contours of wood or stone, in finely cast plastics, and evolving into the durable, accessible practice of mixed-media mosaics.

The meditative movement involved in pattern construction is not at all unlike so many rituals of prayer, petition and communion. The engagement builds the expectation of understanding and resolution. Like many who seek to find the extraordinary in that which is ordinary, and the sardonic assignment of the reverse, my work allows me to play happily with matters in the intimate intersection of obscurity, obsolescence and ubiquity.