I currently live in Stowe, Vermont.  In the summer of 2003 I left my home in Arizona with whatever fit in my car, mostly camping equipment,  a few of my calligraphy drawings and big hopes of finding out if I could create a lifestyle that involved making art.  I had been a massage therapist for close to 20 years and was burned out and searching for meaning and passion in myself and my life.  Being out alone, camping and meeting other people doing the same thing felt incredibly fulfilling...I began meeting other women who were also massage therapists with artistic inclinations.  I met people on the road that opened their homes and lives to me.  I will never forget those people as long as I live.

I spent my first winter in Minnesota and struggled to find work, so massage was easy to fall back on, yet not what I wanted to be doing.  Fortunately I met another therapist who was very artistic and we spent many weeks together making art.  She enjoyed painting on glass and I loved it even if it was cheap bake on acrylic paint.  It led to my desire to work with glaze and ceramic tile...which led to a journey that landed me into Vermont.

I left Minnesota late Spring in 2004, spending weeks camping throughout Minnesota, into Canada and back down into the Adirondack Mountains.  Thinking I would head south when the weather cooled, I headed to the Green Mountains and was smitten upon my very first hour in Vermont.  It was MAGICAL and so intriguing.  I felt at home even though I hadn't spent even a night here.  

After a few weeks camping in Vermont I found myself in Stowe, showing my tile designs to a local pottery place and accepting their hospitality to camp on their land and sup with them until I could find a place to live and get signed up for some pottery classes.   I rented a studio apt. in Waterbury, got another job as a massage therapist and began concentrating on making art.  

The art that I started making wasn't at all what I could have imagined.  I thought I was going to be making tiles and instead found myself  picking up found metal and other objects.  I started collecting railroad plates too, they were so beautiful and intriguing....they were new territory that I'd never seen anyone do anything with and it felt safe because I was unfamiliar with most mediums and too impatient to start from the beginning with paints and even pottery.  This was MINE to "create" and I could make it up as I went.  

Within a year of living in Vermont I had made enough art to start exhibiting.  In Jan 2006 I got gallery representation at the West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe, Vermont.  

Fast Forward to 2008.  I continue to exhibit locally and the big ? is am I gonna get out of state Gallery Representation one of these days?  Who knows.  So far I'm selling my smaller pieces online, and the bigger pieces in the local galleries.  Gotta branch out at some point if I want to support myself with my art.  Back to work......