I was born with a creative gene, thank you Mom and Dad.  My most happy place is when I am working with glass, clay and gardening. I took my first stained glass class in 1983 when living in California. Pottery started with playdoh. No seriously in high school and college.

Years later I settled back on Long Island where I now had the space to have a studio for both of my passions. I still had my stained glass tools and I was gifted a small kiln so bring on the clay. Mosaics was a natural melding of both mediums for me. I had plenty of glass fragments and clay to make my own tiles.

I started doing craft shows with the Huntington Art League, East End Arts Council and at many other local venues. My work is available at the North Fork Craft Gallery, East Wind Shops, Wading River NY. I had outgrown my small, gifted Duncan kiln and purchased a larger Scutt kiln.  People I met wanted to learn, so I started teaching. Teaching became something I truly enjoy.

Thru the East End Arts Council, I was offered an Artist in Residence position in the Westhampton Beach School District with the BOCES ARTS and Education Program.  At Riley Avenue School in Riverhead, Shoreham/Wading River Elementary School, Centereach High School, Speonk Remsenberg Elementary and the East Moriches Middle School, I had the pleasure to work with all the different art teachers and kids from those schools.  I have also worked with home schoolers at my studio. I had such fun working with the elderly a number of times at a local long term care facility. Some of the residence had no interest in the project I had planned, they were joyful just to squeeze the moist tactile clay in their hands. I have also worked with the Make a Wish Foundation.

My creative and mechanical brain. As any one close to me knows I am pretty good at finding a solution to a problem. The technique for tinning copper wire was a problem for me. I like using wire to enhance my stained glass, but the back and forth, back and forth with the soldering iron, the dripping of molten solder, not good. There had to be a better way.  After trial and error, I created the Copper Wire Tinner (Patent Pending).

All the products in my shop are hand made by me with the exception of the naturally aged wood for framing that's mother natures creation.