Personal Statement:
My creative process combines visually exploring, experiencing and capturing. Every day I am presented with something of beauty, intrigue or uniqueness. The camera is my cho- sen tool that enables me to capture that experience which allows me to further study the moment and/or just enjoy it. The study of flowers, culminating in “The Colors of White”, began ironically as my perfect close vision was blurring with age. Not only did the cam- era give me the opportunity to see what my eyes could no longer focus on...but it brought me in much closer to being able to see details I’d never dreamed of seeing. I have photo- graphed flowers for nine years and continue to do so. Most of my early photographs dealt with brightly colored, highly chromatic flowers on a black background. The disappearance of the background helped focus on what is so beautiful about the colors, textures, patterns, and shapes produced in nature. Before long, I observed that others were following my style so it was time to move on...to move in closer and shoot flowers with almost no color: white flowers. This experience has been nothing short of exhilarating. The lack of highly chromatic, bright colors allows me to focus on the shape, textures, patterns and the beautifully simple variations within the colors of white.
I shoot most days and most days I am left with no time for viewing the shots. When I have a space of time, I’ll study a group of photos and decide if there is anything that gives me the “wow” factor. Selecting is a huge part of the process, that’s where all the knowl- edge of seeing and experiencing comes back into play. With “The Colors of White”, I photograph the same flower using different lighting which I manipulate with reflectors and/ or diffusors. I mostly use sunlight as my light source. I will play with the depth of field to determine where I want the viewer to focus. So, I may shoot the same flower 25 times. The experience of doing this is euphoric for me. Choosing the best shots can sometimes be surprising. In the viewfinder, I may look at a shot and say, “got it”, then seeing the shot later, I think, what was I thinking, that shot looks horrible. And, of course, the opposite happens as well. A shot I think is blah and uninteresting may be my shot of the day.

Another subject I enjoy studying through my camera is the ocean, which I have been photographing for nearly a decade. In November of 2009, I had opportunity of a lifetime. I was on a ship in the South China Sea, en route from Vietnam to China, when we ran into a typhoon with waves as high as thirty feet. With camera in hand, I circled the boat for hours photographing the turbulence and chaos in the ocean. It was simply stunning. I saw that day as a gift, to be on the ocean feeling nature’s power and to have the opportunity of capturing that power with my camera.

My goals are simple, to continue to be curious and to expand my vision as an artist. To explore more, experience more and capture more and with different medium. With that goal, I started studying oil painting with Tom Ouellette in 2006 and in 2008, took Boston Neighborhood Networks film director/producer classes and earned the director/ producer certification. I am currently working with Raphael Jaimes-Branger and Anne Smith on producing a Television Show for BNN entitled, “Naked Art: Inside the Artist Studio”.

It’s hard to say my most significant artistic accomplishment. I see each achievement as a marker along a wonderful and joyful journey. The direction I am heading is full of opportunity and exploration and the past, well that’s the history that brought me to the present with the tools to do something I love. I create art because that is my greatest passion. I can’t say where that originated because as far back as I can remember, I’ve always had it. To that end, I am appreciative for the freedom and opportunity that living life as an artist has afforded me.

Schooling:

1982 Brandeis University, Art Education, K-12

1978-1980 Boston University School of Education, BS in Elementary Education

1976-1978 Boston University School of Fine Arts Art

Exhibits and Juried Exhibitions:
2010 Copley Society, Boston, MA, solo show, the main gallery: The Colors of White

2010 Danforth Museum, MA, “Typhoon: Blue Mist” chosen for : Off the Wall

2010 Wenham Museum, Wenham, MA, North Shore Design Show: 4 photos chosen for the living room

2010 Riverfront Office Park, Cambridge, MA, solo show, “Colors”,

2010 Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA , “Dawn to Dusk”, 2 photographs juried into show

2010 Copley Society, Boston, MA, Winter Member’s Show: Reflections

2009 Copley Society, Boston, MA, New Member’s Show

2009 Gaga Gallery, Swampscott, MA, two person show,

2008 St. Botolph Club,Boston, MA, New Member’s Show

2008 Ligne Roset, 200 Boylston Street, Boston, MA “The Colors of White” a one person show

2008 Ligne Roset, 250 Park Ave, New York, NY, “The Colors of White” a one person show

2008 Boston Design Center Dream House, “Which Came First” chosen to be on display in the kitchen

2008 Gallery XIV, Boston, MA,The Canvasation Project

2007 Adesso, 200 Boylston Street, Boston, MA,

2007 Scollay Gallery, Boston City Hall, “Flora” A three woman show in honor of Woman’s History Month

2006 Boston City Hall “Boston Open Studios Exhibit”

2006 Gallery M, Boston, MA, “Noir et Blanc” a one person show of my black & white photographs,

2003 Wenham Museum, North Shore Artist’s Exhibit, Wenham, MA

Movies and Television:
2010 Adam Sandler’s film, Grown Ups, signed to have 8 photographs from “The Colors of White” in Adam’s Character’s home

2010 Quinn-tuplets, television pilot, signed to have three photographs in master bedroom

2009 Anne Fletcher’s “The Proposal”, starring Sandra Bullock, “White Chambers” in the opening scene

Awards:
2010 Attleboro Arts Museum, Juried show “Dawn to Dusk”, Best of Show for “Paion”

2005 Great Lynn Arts and Crafts Society Annual Spring Show, First Place, Photography

2004 Easton Fine Artist and Demonstrating Craftsmen Show, “Best of Show”

2004 Great Lynn Arts and Crafts Society Annual Spring Show, First Place, Photography

Gallery Representation:
Copley Society of Art, 158 Newbury Street, Boston, MA

Jule’s Place, Boston, MA

Art Assets, New York, NY

Tropical Mystery-infrared Water Lily print 1/25

Size: 22 x 28" framed

Value: $625

Tropical Mystery-infrared Water Lily print 1/25

Size: 22 x 28" framed

Value: $625