I believe that at our core, we humans are all pretty much alike; we’re doing our best in life, trying to protect ourselves from fear and hurt, and find connection. It’s not always an easy process! I’m convinced nevertheless that it can be a joyful one, and that life gives us endless opportunities to practice this. When we create something that connects with our core experiences, then we have ART. I like to explore that part of our human condition that is motivated to find solutions, transcend our challenges, seek beauty! There are stresses and difficulties and obstacles all around us, and if in the face of all that (i.e., without shutting it out) we can manage to maintain a lightness, a sense of humor, a neutrality, then we’ve accomplished something. And from this mindset comes my work.

Selected Shows, Awards, Publications

2011
Finalist, International Quilt Festival (Houston) (two pieces)

Finalist, IQA's In Full Bloom (with Jeanne Brenner)

IQA Invitational Celebrity Quilt Auction

Featured Artist, Colquitt County Arts Center, GA

Quilt Scene Magazine (with Jeanne Brenner)


2010
Finalist, International Quilt Festival (Houston)

Quilting Natural Florida

World Quilt Show, West Palm Beach

IQA Invitational Celebrity Quilt Auction

500 Art Quilts, Lark Publications


2009
Honorable Mention, IQA's Celebrate Spring (Chicago)

Finalist, International Quilt Festival (Houston)

Finalist, IQA's In Full Bloom

Denver National Quilt Show

IQA Invitational Celebrity Quilt Auction

Journal of the International Quilt Association, Summer


2008
Finalist, International Quilt Festival (Houston)

Finalist, IQA's Sky's the Limit

Finalist, IQA's Festival Gallery of Quilt Art: Town and Country


2007
Finalist, International Quilt Festival (Houston)


2006
European Expo (Lyon, France)


2005
Finalist, International Quilt Festival (Houston)


2004
Best of Show, Quilters Unlimited Challenge, Tallahassee, FL