As a professional craftsperson who enjoys ancient and obscure processes, I use current materials to make a wide variety of decorative arts with an antique feeling.

I appreciate processes more after I have researched them--reading primary documentation wherever possible--so I can keep the original methods intact. Yes, we have modern materials...but it is FUN to do it just as they would have done the process in very early times...afterwards I sometimes go back to modern materials...but not always

I teach classes in everything I do. Whatever I teach I offer background history and documentation for fun. The newest craft I am delving into is medieval and renaissance illumination. I am reading Cennini and Theophilus to discover how they made and affixed gold leaf, ground pigments, which binders they selected from in order to decorate book pages with ornate designs. The first samples I have done are so addicting that I know this will be another long-term love. It is as refined and detailed as cloisonné, my first love.

I also go hiking, pick up bits along the trail and do collage with these items later (see wasp-nest paper) which gives a new twist to natural history. I am still finding eclectic topics and processes and love teaching workshops. Have art supplies -- will travel!

I attended the University of New Hampshire and Arizona State University in fine arts, completing the requirements for a teaching credential at Dominican College. I still enjoy taking art history classes at College of Marin. I taught Cloisonné Enamel at College of Marin and Dominican Colleges for years. I have been in countless juried art fairs since 1970 including California's American Crafts Council at Fort Mason, The Sausalito Arts Festival, and the Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival and have received awards.Currently I am on staff with the College of Marin and Redwood School Districts and judge arts and crafts for the Sonoma County Fair.