In my work, I use the human figure in an illustrative manner to elicit certain psychological responses in the viewer.

I generally like to use naturalistic backgrounds and subject matter in my work since that is the environment I experienced as a child and young woman growing up in the very pastoral Finger Lakes region.

Some might say that my work, while having an innocence, also has a dark fringe. I do this because it is a symbolic reflection of the human condition as being both good and evil – thick with all of its many dark and mysterious facets

I make myself work a certain number of hours a week on the actual hands-on creation of my pieces. I work whether I’m inspired or not. If I don’t have a particular idea, I work anyway and let the ideas come. I don’t believe that inspiration is the motivator of art; I believe hard work is.