Statement

I have loved animals all my life…everything from hamsters to horses.

And I have loved art all my life…everything from watercolor to weaving. After nearly three decades as a psychologist, who always dabbled in animal art on the side, I have finally given myself over to pursuing my muses and my pets full-time. What you see on this website is a labor of love.

My training as an artist has come in bits and pieces. As a child, I was always the artist in the class. I was the art editor of my high school yearbook. In college I experimented in classes both in studio art and in art history. More recently, I have taken classes in drawing, illustration, collage, watercolor, weaving, and oil painting at the New Art Center in Newton, Massachusetts, and at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. I have also taken semi-private lessons with master painter Marian Dioguardi (mariandioguardi.com), and I am currently in a critique group with her.

Art Exhibits

2007

Newton Artists Association show at Newton Public Library

Becket Artist Association show at Becket Art Center of the Hilltowns, Becket, MA.

Becket Open Studios, Becket, MA.

Scandinavian Living Center, Newton, MA., solo show

Little Gallery Under the Stairs in Lynn Arts Center, Lynn, MA., group show on theme of Goddesses (Cats, in my case)

2006

Wildlife Sanctuary Gallery of the Massachusetts Audubon Society in Sharon (Juried Exhibit on theme of Trees)

Citizen’s Bank in Newton Centre, Solo Pet Portrait Show

Village Bank in Newton Highlands, Participant in Small Group Show

Scandinavian Living Center in Newton, MA. Newton Artists Association Show

2005

Newton Open Studios, Newton, Massachusetts