After working in a variety of expressive forms and rarified settings over the years, I've zeroed in on the practice and teaching of drawing and watercolor as a way to self-realization.
I've painted with watercolor since the age of five. Privately commissioned for most of my work over the past thirty years, my watercolors have been featured in solo and group shows in Los Angeles, Sarasota, FL, Charleston, SC, Petersburg and Culpeper, VA, and Nashville, TN. and are in private collections throughout the US and Europe.
In 1997, I developed my Basic Drawing and Watercolor Workshop for the Kiawah Island Resort in South Carolina, and have since taught classes and workshops throughout New England, California, Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Between 1993 and 2002, I recorded five critically acclaimed albums of songs and toured extensively throughout the US and Europe. My best known songs include The Roswell Incident and The 3 Dreams of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
I also worked at MIT for the Office of the President under Charles M. Vest, as staff to three chairs of the faculty, and at the Media Lab for the Music & Physics Group. I was Investment Research Librarian for David H. Murdock, secretary to Sarah Vaughan, and served as a US delegate for President Carter to the People's Republic of the Congo. My work life started as a teenager for Theodore Presser Company under Arnold Broido.
Between one thing and another, I was design partner for a museum exhibit firm, wrote, directed and produced a play with music at the Asolo Repertory Theater, produced a history of Sarasota, Florida through its residential architecture for the city’s centennial, worked on various world and experimental music projects, at McCabe's Guitar Shop and helped administer one of the first La Musica di Asolo Festivals.
I studied fine art, design, and art history at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Santa Monica College, Ringling School of Art & Design, and earned a BA in Humanities (Drama, Art and Music) from New College of Florida. I grew up within walking distance of and had the great fortune of making many visits to The Barnes Foundation, where I was deeply influenced at an early age by Dr. Barnes and his collection.
Raised by devout Irish Catholics and educated at private convent schools in a region forged by Quakers, my spiritual approach to the creative process is also influenced by decades of daily yoga practice, years of listening to Alan Watts, direct study with Ram Dass and Pema Chodron, and Shambhala Training completed at Karma Cholling in 1994.
