Artist’s Statement

I knew I would be a weaver when I first stepped into a small studio on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia in 1981. The inspiration of that first “meeting” has never stopped. Born in Indiana and relocated to central New England in the mid 1970’s, I graduated with an MFA in Artisanry: Fibers from UMass Dartmouth.

My aesthetic is informed by the freedom she has always felt and still feels in the outdoors. This unfettered feeling is revealed in nature, on the farms, gardens, and ocean around her. An unending curiosity for material stimulates her language of hand and craft, believing the fullest expression of a fiber can be realized through observation, repetition, and structure.

“My materials are personified as I work with them. The individual characteristics are enhanced through hand manipulation techniques and conversations between each other. The architecture of form, order/dis-order, movement, substance, and tension are all part of this subjective dialogue. Density contrasts with transparency to create meandering, linear pathways of rhythm. Every fiber has a personality – it is up to us to listen to it.”

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