About

I grew up on a farm near Lake Ontario in western New York State where we raised and preserved just about all of our food, but when it came to college I chose art over home economics.  It was my father’s drawings of projects for the farm and my mother’s secretarial shorthand notes that visually engaged me as a child. I longed to make things that were as accomplished and conveyed ideas without needing to use words.  College provided an undergraduate degree in art education with experience in many different media.  This included studying photography with Oscar Bailey, thus leading me to a life-long fascination with photography, which has challenged and contented me on many levels throughout my life.  

After working in a photography studio and teaching art in a public school, I went on to graduate school in photography with Aaron Siskind at the Institute of Design in Chicago.  Later I worked for several photographers before I moved into full time teaching of photography, first at Rochester Institute of Technology, and ultimately at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia.  Several of the alums of the photography program from the Institute of Design-- Barbara Blondeau, Tom Porett, Ray Metzker and Joan Redmond-- welcomed me to Philadelphia in 1974 and introduced me to David Lebe, Ron Walker, and a thriving photographic community.   When I retired after thirty years at Moore, the digital snapshots I was making for my garden journal led into the current plant-flora images.  Today I live with my husband, John, outside of Philadelphia where I continue to garden and photograph, drawing inspiration from my own and other gardens.  

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