I’m originally from Altadena, California, where I made my first prints as a child at the Pasadena Art Museum. I studied printmaking at Pasadena City College, Grinnell College, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and the University of Iowa. My activities as a photographer began when I was given my first camera at age twelve. I continue to work in both analog (film) and digital formats.

 

For 35 years I was curator of prints and drawings at the Spencer Museum of art at University of Kansas, where I specialized in the graphic art of sixteenth-century Northern Europe. It has been a natural transition bringing my lifelong passion for printmaking and photography to the Rocky Mountains and the Estes Park region, where I have been resident since 2016. My woodcuts, etchings and photographs of the past few years focus on the remains of trees observed in Rocky Mountain National Park. As they slowly return to the earth, they reveal much of their beautifully complex biological structure. A friend called them elegiac, which I hope describes them well.