ABOUT ME

Since 1997 I have lived and worked in midcoast Maine. In general, I spend the winter months painting and hooking rugs, and in the summer I am involved in landscape projects and small-scale farming as part of Hedgerow, a seasonal business.

I began hooking rugs in 2006, and shortly thereafter I joined the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild, where over the course of the next several years five of my rugs received “Viewers’ Choice Awards” at the Guild’s bi-annual shows. In 2018 I was a featured artist at the show and also received the Guild’s “Wooly Bowl” recognition. The same year, Rug Hooking Magazine included an article on my work. In addition to the shows at the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild, I have also had a solo rug show and been part of a group show at the Maine Fiber Arts Gallery in Topsham, Maine.

While I have drawn and sketched much of my life, I did not start painting in earnest until 2015. I am largely self-taught, although I have benefited from taking several on-line painting workshops, in particular through Black Pond Studio.

Each summer I display my work, both paintings and rugs, in the small gallery that is part of Hedgerow. In 2023 I had a solo show of my paintings at the Craignair Gallery in Spruce Head, Maine.

My academic background includes a B.E.D.A. (Environmental Design in Architecture) from the School of Design at North Carolina State University (1982), an M.L.A. (Landscape Architecture) from the School of Natural Resources at The University of Michigan (1984), and an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary, New York (1987, Thesis: Toward a Theology of Ecology).