Started art school at the University of Washington Art School in Seattle, married the drawing and painting teacher after my junior year, and came  to Syracuse with my late husband when he came here to be on the faculty and get a doctorate.  Our household was a drawing household – everyone had supplies of paper and pens and charcoal.  I have done most of my professional work in textiles and fashion, but everything has been based on drawing.   I wrote a book in the 1970s for Prentice-Hall called “The Sewing Machine As a Creative Tool” because I found that thread and a sewing machine  could make a really great drawing! I have a loose, rather Japanese hand.  I have absorbed the compositional ideas and the ideas about the importance of the negative space in drawings from my student days, and other than that, I tend to follow no rules. My drawing “City Girl” won the first prize in drawings and graphics at the New York State Fair in 2007, and I have won other prizes with my drawing recently.

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