About us

I was introduced to painting at age sixteen months, when my artist educator mother put me into a bathtub, surrounded by sheets of news print taped to the walls, with tempera paint in baby food jars, each with its own brush, sitting on the edge of the tub. She told me that this is where I should create pictures, rather than drawing crayon images on the newly wallpapered walls of our home. Soon thereafter, I started talking and telling stories about my paintings, which led to the development of writing skills. Painting, therefore, was my original creative method of communication and visual storytelling.  Today, I write stories to accompany my paintings and photographs, but rather than taping them to the walls around the tub, they hang in corporate and private collections, in boardrooms and homes across the U.S., Europe and Australia, and magazines such as International Living publish them. I exhibit my work in shows in the U.S. and in Europe.

Earlier, I earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art History and English Literature from The University of Pennsylvania, After graduation, I entered the field of book publishing and then attended graduate school at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. For nine years after that, I managed an art gallery at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, where I sold fine art to corporate and private collectors on the East Coast. During  holidays and vacations, I traveled extensively throughout Great Britain, Europe, Scandinavia, S. Africa, The Caribbean, Hawaii, Alaska and the Continental U.S. I photographed and painted everywhere I went. During a trip to Italy in 1998, I rode a Vespa from Florence to Rome, painting in Renaissance villas, nestled in medieval hill towns, among poppies and sunflower fields and sun drenched vineyards. When I returned home, those paintings sold quickly. Shortly thereafter, I was invited to do a photoshoot in Paris.