About

Born into the Lithuanian and Polish farming heritage of Western Massachusetts, I started making oil paintings of this fertile river valley at the age of eight. After studying painting and textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design, I spent many years as a textile designer traveling and exchanging ideas and traditions in surface design with other cultures. My background as a designer and creative director in the apparel and home textile industry has refined my love of pattern and provided valuable skills for creating and evaluating visual form into continuous surface design.

In painting my landscapes, what emerges is an interesting mix of iconography and pattern that make up the terrain. Repetition, silhouettes and shapes found in the landscape evoke feelings of familiarity and order, a sense of calm in a distressing world.

These paintings attempt to interpret the temporary nature of our individual presence in a place in time. They are diaries, snapshots of moments of places where I once was. They are about the passages, sequences and the repetition of generations. With that as a catalyst, the landscapes evoke a sense of timelessness, enabling the observer to look beyond the pretty picture.

My paintings are about a place in time and the transformation of objects and elements in that place into textures that inform a larger outside world.