About Me

When I first saw a handmade book, I was completely enchanted. I had never considered the book as an art form, but once exposed, I was fatally attracted.

My books are a reflection of my experiences and tend toward personal narratives sprinkled with humor. Each one is thematically designed, so that every aspect of it, including shape, cover images, texture, structure and paper choice, is selected to blend together into a single coordinated experience that unfolds and builds upon itself as each page is turned. Each material, each typeface, each word and space contributes to the total artistic impression.

Tendonitis drove me to explore new ideas in creating art from paper. An inability to fold for long periods of time gave me an opportunity to explore new avenues and create my art for the health and comfort of my own soul. Here was a chance to use the many embellishments I had long collected but never used in a book. Here was a chance to work out complex color schemes with value, saturation, texture and image. Here also I could explore a single word and express it in paper, thread and bead. Here I could reinvent myself.

The principles that drove my book design also drive the collage pieces. Color, texture, and an intuitive blending of disparate pieces tell my stories with words, images and fragments from our lives. These days, my art is my gift to myself and the world around me. I have rebuilt my life and centered it on the expression of my experiences, thoughts and philosophies through my paper quilt collages. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do, and find something in their details that sparks for you.