A B O U T N O Ë L
My paintings and works on paper reflect a combination of influences beginning with my birth in San Francisco and early years spent growing up in southern California. I was passionate about art and design and was fortunate to be mentored by both an extraordinary high school art teacher and several exceptional, college artists/professors who encouraged me to become an artist and an art educator. During these formative years of study, the fashion world provided summer employment and later led to positions as a fashion coordinator for several Los Angeles department stores after graduation.
National and international travel and experiencing foreign cultures have continuously influenced my artistic career. In 1969, while pursuing my Master’s degree in Art, I studied art and architecture while traveling extensively in Europe. A year later, I left the United States for Japan where, for three years, I taught art on an Air force Base and studied with a contemporary, Japanese printmaker as well as exploring Japan and numerous countries in southeast Asia.
In 1980, attracted by the cultural diversity and dramatic landscape of New Mexico, which my husband, an architect and a poet, had introduced me to in 1976, we moved from southern California to Taos where I focused on painting, after having worked for a number of years, professionally, in ceramics and off-loom fiber sculpture.
Since then, I have maintained a home and studio along the Rio Grande River corridor in Taos, Albuquerque and currently, Santa Fe with a creative focus on painting, printmaking and collage. The rich history and culture, the vast open spaces and the beauty of the land in its many forms here, as well as aspects of higher consciousness combined with travel experiences in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean Islands, have been powerful sources of inspiration for my inner life and my art.
My intuition and an emotional response guide my approach to each subject, which then allows me to combine compositional elements such as bold design, expressive use of color, repetitive pattern and mark making with a spirit of movement in works that can be found in more than two hundred and fifty public and private collections in the United States and abroad.
National and international travel and experiencing foreign cultures have continuously influenced my artistic career. In 1969, while pursuing my Master’s degree in Art, I studied art and architecture while traveling extensively in Europe. A year later, I left the United States for Japan where, for three years, I taught art on an Air force Base and studied with a contemporary, Japanese printmaker as well as exploring Japan and numerous countries in southeast Asia.
In 1980, attracted by the cultural diversity and dramatic landscape of New Mexico, which my husband, an architect and a poet, had introduced me to in 1976, we moved from southern California to Taos where I focused on painting, after having worked for a number of years, professionally, in ceramics and off-loom fiber sculpture.
Since then, I have maintained a home and studio along the Rio Grande River corridor in Taos, Albuquerque and currently, Santa Fe with a creative focus on painting, printmaking and collage. The rich history and culture, the vast open spaces and the beauty of the land in its many forms here, as well as aspects of higher consciousness combined with travel experiences in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean Islands, have been powerful sources of inspiration for my inner life and my art.
My intuition and an emotional response guide my approach to each subject, which then allows me to combine compositional elements such as bold design, expressive use of color, repetitive pattern and mark making with a spirit of movement in works that can be found in more than two hundred and fifty public and private collections in the United States and abroad.
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