My artistic journey began as an abstract painter where color and movement was a way to express my emotions. During this intial stage my paintings grew in scale and texture. Layers of transparent colors with symbolic marks danced across the canvas holding my secret thoughts and desires. Inspiration came from Kandinsky, Gauguin and Pollock, whose artistic ancestors’ voices challenged me to produce a spiritual and rhythmic sound. Later I was able to embody that sound in other materials.

The next path on this journey was obtaining a BFA from Holy Names College in 1983. My work moved into a much larger form, installation pieces. These are works with which the viewer could interact, such as my first cave project titled "Tomb for Transformation". That project allowed the viewer to give up their little deaths by drawing on the wall.  Future installation projects will also be life-size in scale and cover various subjects, such as honoring my ancestry.

Joseph Campbell’s book "The Power of Myth" led me down the road to a Masters program in Fine Arts at John F. Kennedy University. There I learned about the spirituality of creativity. My subject matter moved to stories of African Americans during Colonial days and toward cosmic spiritual places. My media expanded to abstract stone sculpture. I explored textiles and quiltmaking.

My current work are fabric collages representing movement, texture and colors in a combination of fabric scrapes, words, oil pastels, beads, buttons, and decorative stitches. This new series is titled "Dream Shields", produced to hold my desires and secret thoughts.

So the journey continues . . . . .