While growing up in Carbon County, PA, I was always drawing with a passion
and concentration beyond that of childhood doodling. My dream was to be
an artist when I was grown. There was no place to study art where I lived;
art was not even offered in the schools I attended. I was excited to finally
study art formally in college. I attended the University of Delaware as
a fine art major. I studied painting, printmaking and drawing and especially
loved figure drawing. I also had my first class in photography.
After moving to NYC, with limitations of space and time, I continued
with photography as my main means of expression. Eventually I returned to
school at Parsons School of Design to receive a degree in Photography. It
was during this course of study that I discovered the mysteries of digital
imaging. I took to it immediately, thrilled with the prospect of again creating
images. By combining and blending my original photographs I traveled beyond
the limits of reality. Over the 14 years that I've been making my digital
photomontages, my work has become more painterly. I realized that I long
to once again create hand-made original artwork.
Now, after returning to PA, I have the space needed to have a proper
art studio. My artful journey has come full circle and I am creating original
mixed media paintings and collages. This web site currently contains only
my digital photomontages. I hope to add my original work soon. In the meantime,
my small collages may be purchased on my etsy web site.

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