I began my artistic journey in high school where I did an independent study in photography. Back then there were no digital images – it was all about developing your own film and the magic that happened in the darkroom. I still miss the tingling on your skin when you first see an image emerging in the developing solution. Hours passed easily in the darkroom; without daylight there was no sense of time. As a result of this early training, I'm still partial to creating black and white photography. And yet there is so much feeling and dynamic which can be conveyed through color, so I do both black and white and color photography.

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I also began working in stone and clay as a teenager, and developed a love of sculpture. Because of this, I try to imbue a sense of form in all my artwork. Although my artistic endeavors remained enjoyable hobbies while I pursued a career as an educator, I continued to take workshops and classes to develop my skills and repertoire of creative expression. Throughout my life I have looked to capture not only the splendor of nature, but the ordinary in an extraordinary way. Always a constant learner, I have explored various mediums aiming to render an image or idea in its truest form or in a new way.

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In my photography, I use minimal manipulation of my images in an effort to preserve the energy, beauty, and light captured at that precise moment. I hope my photographs can spark a feeling, thought, emotion, memory, or question in the viewer.

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My artwork has been shown coast to coast – from Amherst, Massachusetts to Seattle, Washington – and in numerous local group exhibitions in Taos, New Mexico.