Comment:  I am fortunate to live in a peaceful hollow on the edge of a large tract of Pennsylvania woodland.  Here I garden and walk daily in the woods often using my camera to capture memorable happenstances; the juxtaposition of flower varieties in bloom, intertwining branches on an icy day, or an unexpected bright fungi on craggy bark.  I have been translating these moments of beauty into fiber for the last 16 years.

Bio:  I begin in the dye studio where I color long lengths of cotton cloth and papers by dyeing, painting, silk-screening and printing using a variety of constructed, found, and antique objects.   One piece of fabric may undergo several processes to achieve the depth and saturation of color I seek.  On the large felt covered wall in my studio I arrange and rearrange small pieces of these fabrics to create compositions which are then sewn together.  Finally, I layer a backing fabric and an interior layer of cotton under the composition and sew~draw lines suggesting landscape elements.

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