I
was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. I grew up at a time when the city was alive with energy and excitement.
My childhood idol, Sonora Carver, was the woman who rode the diving horse at Atlantic City’s famed Steel Pier.
They were surely my inspiration for the countless drawings of the Steel Pier and diving horses I did as a little girl.
Although I received a formal art education
in high school, it wasn’t until I reached my early thirties that I was able to pursue a career as an artist.
My professional career began with equine art. My husband and I had a small racing stable based at
Hialeah Park in Florida. Visiting this most beautiful of American race tracks in the early morning hours
to watch the horses as they galloped around the track fueled my desire to create a series of bronzes celebrating the spirit
and athleticism of these magnificent animals. My bronzes depicting the thoroughbred in action were
very well-received by the racing community and general public alike. I’m proud to say that for a
time in the nineteen- eighties, I was addressed by the racing press as the “Remington of the Racetrack.”
Always on the lookout for new subjects to express my art, I began
creating bronze sculptures with birds as the subject. Among my collection of birds are Bald Eagles, Great
Blue Herons, Peacock’s, African Bee-Eaters, and Wood Ducks. Today many of the sculptures I created
of these marvelous birds may be found on permanent display in a number of public and private collections around the world,
from New York to Dubai.
My latest work involves an exploration
of the abstract form in bas-relief sculpture. It is a major departure from my earlier, more figurative
work but one that I find endlessly fascinating and challenging.
I am honored that my latest work in cast paper is being favorably received by my peers, collectors
and the press. I’m very proud to announce that one of my first cast-paper sculptures a loving, tongue-in-cheek
tribute to Jackson Pollock “Jack the Dripper” won the 21st Annual A Britain Banghart Award at the Academy
Art Museum in Easton,. Maryland
