She has had artist’sresidencies at Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY, the Cill Rialaig Project,Ballinskelligs, Ireland, Emily Harvey Foundation for the Arts, Venice, Italy,Milkwood International Residencies, Cesky Krumlov, South Bohemia, CzechRepublic, Atelier Cres, Cres Town, Croatia , and Obras Holland, Renkum, TheNetherlands. She was a member of the Albany-Tula Alliance delegation to Russia;Tula is Albany’s sister city in Russia. She was invited by the Tula State LevTolstoy Pedagogical University as a visiting artist, and gave a presentation onher paintings done during residencies in Ireland and Italy.Her work is informed by travel,going to museums and archaeological sites in Europe, the Yucatan, and Russia.She often works on intimately scaled acrylic paintings on paper. Her luminoussurfaces are achieved by using an intense palette and successive layers oftranslucent glazes.She taught painting and drawingin the Department of Visual Arts, Russell Sage College, Albany, NY, and taughtwatercolor in two of their international studies programs, “Sage at Oxford,”Somerville College, Oxford University, and “Celtic Connections” in Scotland andIreland. She served as chair of the department for a two-year term and had twosabbatical leaves to paint. She is now Professor Emerita, Russell Sage College,and working in her own studio in Albany.Artist’s StatementMy earlyinfluences were medieval manuscript illuminations and Persian and Indianminiature paintings. I was attracted to the clear color, intricate detail andsense of space. I continue to be drawn to the focus and presence these imagescan have. My paintings, often intimately scaled, are mostly abstract, but manyhave references to ancient art and archaeology.
