About the Artist
I earned my BFA in Crafts (Ceramics & Fiber) from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1977, and worked full-time as a sculptor for the Monumental Construction and Moulding Company in Washington DC for several years in the 1980s, followed by working in that trade freelance ever since.
Ornamental moulding featuring sculpture I've created adorns many famous landmarks in DC, as well as many other sites in North America. Some of my original wall sculpture has been licensed by retailers Design Toscano and Sacred Source, and sold worldwide. These days I am mostly working on commissioned wall sculpture: portraits, plaques, and memorials. But I also work in several other mediums.
In collaboration with my husband, Carl Anderson, I've done cell animation for NASA, the Defense Logistics Agency, and the Deep Carbon Observatory. I love jobs like those because doing the research is fascinating.
Long ago I was a singer/songwriter in a band called Seventh Dawn, and a couple of our albums have been re-released in recent years, thanks to people rediscovering rare folk/acid-rock albums on vinyl.
Knitting, crochet, weaving, and sewing my own designs are a perennial passion. It's more of a hobby, but as a result, I invented and patented the Finishing Needle, now licensed and sold by Susan Bates.
I think all of humanity yearns for conscious communion with the natural world, including with each other. I also believe reawakening to, and participating consciously in, the ongoing miracle that is the Earth is not only possible, it's the Next Big Thing for us. Because it has to be.
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Artist's Statement
Every one of us experiences moments when we see something and our eyes suddenly widen, we gasp involuntarily, and we smile all the way up to our eyebrows. Igniting this feeling is the core goal of my work.
