I always loved putting little bits together to make something.  From sewing with my mom, jigsaw puzzles with my grandmother or later quilting; watching little bits of color come together into a creation is exciting.

  Reminiscent of using every crayon in the box, the colored bits of glass scattered across my workbench inspire me to find new color combinations.  Glass is my adult crayon; the colors are saturated and rich of translucent and watery.  Light plays into the combination of opalescent and translucent color which expands the “box of colors” in my palette.

  The complexity of my designs continues to escalate.  I very often create my own palettes by stenciling, silk-screening and or combing crushed glass onto sheets of glass and firing them.  These sheets are then cut up to be incorporated into the intricate patterns.  My patterns come from many sources such as tiling, quilting and even nature. 

  The color and patterns enhance the rhythm and movement that the light already bestows on the glass.  My Subject matter flows from doodles on my schoolwork to my present day inspirations.  Although the pure and simple childhood visions are still there, a message of time and experience lies beneath them.  However, no matter whether figures, a tree or geometric pattern the love is still in the creation, the combination, the doing, and the final “a ha!” moment.