A B O U T

I was born in South Africa during the apartheid era. My earlier art reflects my interest in landscape. I used barbed wire in abstracted landscapes as a symbol of how people were kept out in a divided country.  My recent work focuses on the shifting landscape of glaciers and what lies beneath. I use the landscape as a metaphor to draw attention to the instability and fragility of our world. 

I have been a jewelry designer for 20 years. I am an art teacher, having taught painting to adults and art to children.

I have taken many courses in design, digital photography and mixed media at the Museum of Fine arts School in Boston as well as courses at the Mass College of Art. 

I use collage, digital photography, tape, paint and mark making to accentuate the layered nature of my work.  

During the Covid pandemic I was walking in the quiet neigbourhood one day, looking at all the uncut lawns full of dandelions and other small flowery weeds and realized that I had never seen so much flora. I also realized that our biggest desire is to be seen our selves. It got me thinking about my earliest memories, those times when I felt deeply connected to nature. I developed JOY READINGS, a modality to help guide people to remember who they have always been. Its a noisy cluttered world and so often we are told to do more, more skin routines, more vitamins, more workouts, more cognitive exercises to stave off mental decline, more JOY even…. but maybe if you remember your own Joyful times you wont have to do more you will just BE more.

Today I do joy readings, teach mandala, mystical landscape classes, run buoyancy workshops with my JOY partner Lisa McCourt and play a lot.