biography . . . . . . 

The 1950's

As a young teen growing up in the blue-collar town of Easton, Pennsylvania,
I remember watching the Jon Gnagy Show on TV and wishing I could draw.
So I mailed away for a Jon Gnagy "Learn to Draw" kit -- complete with charcoal
sticks, drawing paper and instruction manual. The first lesson was about
perspective -- which involved endless hours drawing barns and covered
bridges! What I ultimately learned was that I had little patience for the process
and was really bad with perspective! One day I picked up my mother's Super-8
movie camera. Voila! Through the lens of that clunky metal box, my humble
surroundings appeared more than just ordinary. I was intrigued.

The 1960's

At 21, I was married to an artist and living in San Francisco. I came to know
about photographers like Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange and Harry
Callahan. Inspired, I bought my first 35mm still camera -- a manual Mamiya with
match-needle through-the-lens metering -- just in time to photograph the first
ever "Gathering of the Tribes" in Golden Gate Park. Immersed in a world of
psychedelic light shows, acid-rock, flower power, and anti-war demonstrations.
the lens of my camera pulled me in -- toward the details -- and the magic of
color, light and balance. I was hooked.

Many photographs later

In the fall of '69, I returned to the banks of the Delaware River and settled into
the uniqueness of New Hope and Lambertville. Camera in hand, I documented
whatever was happening around me at the time. I put little thought or effort into
showing my work until the early '80's, when I was invited to be a part of the
"9 Women" group and took part in an exhibition at Stover's Mill. Around 1985,
I also had a one-person show at Lola's Cafe in Lambertville.

In the final analysis, my desire to make photographs comes not from a
conscious desire to create art. It comes instead from my desire to create an
on-going visual journal -- hundreds of images of present moments, rescued from
passing time. A way for me to say, "I was here, and this is what I saw."