I love hands-on crafts, printmaking, drawing, and painting, whether its children’s books, comics or crankies (hand-cranked illustrated scrolls set to music!).

I grew up in the wooded hills of a Pennsylvania river valley in a family full of cultural contradictions. Commercial art school and university fine arts programs provided skills to work as an artist. I’ve drawn my greatest inspiration from the beautiful places I have lived…Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Alaska, and the Catskills of New York. Home is the Pacific Northwest where I am surrounded by music and family in our hand-built cedar house.