Statement

I have been working with textiles as my art form for over 50 years, I use what has been referred to as “women’s work” to express contemporary themes, study women’s issues and address current events.

During the last thirteen years, I have been concentrating on one of a kind embroidered works. I design and hand-stitch each piece using a simple satin stitch with cotton embroidery floss on linen. The image is of primary importance and together with my strong use of color, it tells the story I want to convey.

Our planet, its future, its creatures, its dilemmas has been the subject of my work for a long time. Climate change, extinction, and the impact of humans on the planet continue to be sources of my artistic activism.

My series DISAPPEARANCES features seven of the thirteen islands in imminent danger of being subsumed by rising oceans. These include the Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Fiji, Palau and the Maldives.

With my newest work, the ROADSIDE GEOLOGY series, I am exploring abstraction and layering of elements. These pieces were inspired by the book “Roadside Geology of Texas” by Darwin Spearing, acquired on one of our many trips to the Big Bend region.