About
Art has always been important to me. As a six-year-old, I traveled the world with my family for half a year, experiencing different cultures, foods, gardens, languages. I grew up in Washington, DC, visiting the National Gallery of Art regularly. In my college job for the History of Art Department, I was immersed daily in visuals spanning centuries. And I still remember my awe visiting the Louvre at 21 after a summer of study in Avignon.
So when I founded my marketing/consulting firm, I already had a strong belief in the power of visuals to create successful communication - in smaller formats (ads, direct mail) and in larger ones (billboards, trade show booths).
My early photographs focused on intimate landscapes. Several years ago, I discovered a passion for creating images that do not exist in the real world, images that rely on form, texture, and color to open the imagination to emotion and myth. My images often play at the edges of the otherworldly, magical, and surreal. Still, nature is usually my muse.
My work has been shown at the 2024 SIM (Scuola Italiana di Pesca a mosca) Exhibition (Castel di Sangro, Italy), Verum Ultimum Gallery (Portland, OR), Los Angeles Center for Photography (Los Angeles, CA), Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (Winchester, VA), Barns of Rose Hill (Berryville, VA), Berkeley Art Works (Martinsburg, WV), Firehouse Gallery (Berryville, VA), Laurel Ridge Community College (Middletown, VA), Las Laguna Gallery (Las Laguna, CA), and a host of online venues, including YourDailyPhotograph.com and artistonish.com. My images have also been featured in ICM Photography Magazine, West Trade Review, and Shenandoah Photographic Society newsletter. To read more about my involvement in publications and exhibits, click here.
I am grateful to these photographers for their teaching and inspiration: Valda Bailey, Susan Burnstine, Doug Chinnery, Tillman Crane, Phil Douglis, Alison Shaw, Eddie Soloway, and Vincent Versace.
