I began making  papier mâché sculptures almost 20 years ago, after finding a bundle of wire tossed into my garage. The basic materials of my sculptures are scrap paper twisted over curvey, wire line drawings, the occasional found object, and glue, combined with imagination.  In traditional papier mâché sculpture the inner paper-and-glue substance of crude and mass produced forms is concealed beneath plaster and/or paint. However, in my sculptures I intentionally strive to display both the underlying materials of which they are composed and a refined and graceful form.  Because I am a biologist and entomologist by training and an inveterate watcher of people, it seems only natural that my whimsical creations would be life forms—amalgamations of plants, animals, and people

An abiding interest in nature and science led me to complete a B.S. in Biology at Radford University in Radford, Virginia, and an M.S. in Entomology from the University of Wisconsin.  Over the past 12 years I have worked as a research assistant at Kansas State University in the Agronomy Department, taught art and science classes in local schools, and worked for a federally funded, family-based literacy program, Even Start, in the Manhattan/Ogden school district. 

Art serves me as both occupation and therapy.  My sources of inspiration come from daily life, a melange of family, women’s, and human concerns.  Recurrent themes that I deal with include the preciousness of  life, the humor of  the human condition, and the interrelatedness of life forms