Born in Exeter, NH, 1944. Graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, BA in Studio Art, 1966. Graduated from The School of Library Science, University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL, MFA in Book Arts, 1984.

I've shown my work in Mexico and in Maine.

I can mark my life by changes in place that have had a strong influence on my work.

In 1969 I moved with my young family to San Miguel de Allende, in central Mexico, for the first of many sojourns there. I loved the warm light, the desert space, and the steep, cheerful streets of the town. The color got into my palette and stayed there.

From 1970 to 1984 my family and I were academic nomads and moved many times, to colleges and universities in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Iowa, Alabama and Mexico. I continued to draw from the model and to paint in oils, figures and landscapes, sometimes from nature and sometimes imaginary. My art was a way to explore possibilities and to keep track of myself.

In 1984 I returned to San Miguel, living there on and off for the next nine years.

In 1986 a three-month stay at the Mayan archeological site of Tikal in Guatemala was a turning point. The atmosphere there was charged with a mix of forces—the fear of political violence, the mystery and genius of the ancient Maya, and the intense, noisy beauty and aliveness of the jungle. A ten foot crocodile swam and sunned himself in the village pond, revered by local people even though he was said to eat children. Fear, mystery, and animism—I felt for the first time since childhood that my internal landscape matched my surroundings. I recognized a realm that could become mine to work from.

In 1989, while living in San Miguel, I consciously began to shift from image-based painting to finding an abstract pictorial language that came from my body and experience. This shift was difficult and I was often lost, but I couldn't go back. 

In 1993 I returned to the U.S., first to Denver, CO, where I climbed in the Rockies, then in 1997 I moved to Harrington, ME, near the ocean.  Here I do a lot of physical work on the land that is sustaining and creates a connection between what's around me and what's inside me, so that in painting often I don't feel the difference.