My interest in natural history, geology, maps and patterning, as well as concern for the environment, offer inspiration for my hand-painted art quilts, paintings on cloth and paintings on wood panel. My studio is filled with fossils, dried cicadas and dragonflies, seeds, tree bark and an eight foot tall dried cup plant. The work is also informed by my experiences as a bird-watcher and as a volunteer for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

I often use geological formations as a basis for contours and patterns—functioning simultaneously as abstract form and distinct geological feature. Additional imagery includes fossils, topographical views, rivers, planets, constellations, insects, birds and vegetation.

The quilts and paintings on cloth are made using thinned acrylic paint on unbleached muslin. The quilts may be pieced or whole cloth, quilted by hand and/or machine.