I have always used imagination as my communication medium with the world. As a child in the midwest, I enjoyed playing with the dimensional aspects of defining space. While in elementary school, I developed an interest in drawing floor plans for fun—be it hotels, single-family homes, or interiors of submarines! I was the only girl in my high school to take mechanical and architectural drawing. I pursued my affinity for architecture in college and my interests evolved to include other design avenues as well. A job in Boston led me to begin graphic design inside architectural projects. In the early 1970s, I was a founding member of the first all women’s carpentry collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Later as the art director for a national magazine I met my husband, a fellow artist, and soon returned to the midwest to create art and a family. While on my artistic journey, I became a mother to three daughters, a most creative endeavor! Since then, I’ve expanded my inspirational focus and now grow natural materials to incorporate into my work.