I began my journey into art as a photographer, growing up on the East Coast. I went to graduate school in Connecticut and was fascinated by the old mill towns that were abundant at the time. Such a sense of loss and decay. In the decades since, I’ve focused on the natural world, beautiful as well as distressed, as everything tells a story. My current work takes a step away from representational imagery and moves toward creating a feeling of mystery and transcendence using a variety of mediums and processes. I combine alternate materials with photography–silk, vellum, paints, pastels, and gold & palladium leafing–to bring depth, dimension and luminescence.