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"I started china painting after I quit working in kindergarten. I went from designing bulletin boards and kindergarten artwork, to painting flowers and leaves on porcelain. I took lessons once a week in Lee Merritt's basement. For me creating china art is relaxing and fun. Christmas is my busiest time of the year although I paint all year. I have my own kiln and do everything at home. If you would like to see my work, please stop by for a visit."

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"I became interested in primitive, hand-carved wooden duck and geese decoys when I lived near Cape Cod. I've read up on the lives of the old master carvers, trying to pick up tricks of the trade they utilized. I've talked to old carvers on North Carolina's Outer Banks, trying to pick their minds.
Several years ago I decided to try my hand at duplicating these primitive decoys. The early ones were pretty good. They became progressively better. I've been lucky enough to have sold many of them at Americana festivals, in antique shops and have had some auctioned off at Ducks Unlimited fund raising banquets.
Most of the decoys I've carved were made from storm damaged pine found along side of the road in Forest Hills."

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"I grew up in Vermont in the middle of great natural beauty and with a vast appreciation of traditional and non-traditional arts and crafts.  I majored in Art, and in Education at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. I spent 42 years in education as a teacher and high school counselor-teaching the art of creating a life. I now play with my art, making clothes, designing and making bead jewelry, quilts, custom wall hangings, and weaving. One of my greatest pleasures has been living and creating in Forest Hills for two years."

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"I have studied art all of my life in one way, shape or form. I took interior design classes at the Kansas City Art Institute. Then I moved to the south where I studied Fine Art at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. During my education I primarily worked with acrylics on canvas, watercolor, mixed media, lithography and metal sculpture amongst an array of other mediums. I teach pottery classes in my basement part-time. I also have two booths at Scotland Yard Antiques on the square in Lawrenceville. I enjoy going to auctions and estate sales in search of hidden treasures.

For me, artwork is meditation in motion. Nothing is ever planned out. My pieces surface from the subconscious. My work becomes the vessel, connecting me with spirit. My hope is to eventually combine pottery, mixed media and painting, maybe even welding - bringing it all together in perfect harmony."