I was born and raised in Boston, MA. I grew up surrounded by a variety of people, great architecture and easy access to art museums. I took a photography class as a teenager at the local Boys Club and fell in love with the process of developing rolls of film and manipulating the negative to get the desired effect.

I dabbled with art growing up but it wasn’t until I moved to Minnesota in 1978 to attend Gustavus Adolphus College that I began to explore art as a legitimate field of study. I took every art class available except photography and weaving (they just didn’t fit into my schedule). My goal was to experience as much as possible while at college because I figured that the resources would not be available to me after graduation.

My goal as an artist is to honor the subject matter but add my personality/emotion to it in some way. For this series I took photos of fabrics that I specifically purchased and used digital manipulation techniques by changing color schemes to enhance the beauty of the original fabric. My goal is to create digital quilt blocks much like the barn medallions you see throughout the Midwest. This exhibit is my attempt to marry my photography with my love of the quilting art form.