I work slowly: it usually takes me a long time to create a finished piece, but I’m okay with that.

I love every step of the printmaking process: coming up with a starting image, transferring that image to linoleum; figuring out what to carve and how to do it; carving; inking; and printing. I particularly like mark making and doodling, the physical act of carving, and the push and pull between wanting to control the processes and learning to accept — and sometimes revel in — the unpredictable nature of printmaking.

Specializing in:

Relief printing (Linocut)

Monotype printing

Exhibitions:

**Mini Bar San Francisco**, Group Show “Animals are Better than Peoples,” 2025
**Madrone Art Bar**, Group Show, Summer 2024
**Mini Bar San Francisco**, Group Show, Summer 2024
**Bean Bag Cafe**, Solo Show, San Francisco, Summer 2023
**Alamo Square Cafe,** Solo Show, San Francisco, November 2020 - February 2021
**GREEN Art Show,** Fly Bar, San Francisco, Spring 2019
**Chrysalis Group Show,** San Francisco, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022

Background:

**Originally from New England, I’ve lived in San Francisco, my adopted home, for more than 30 years.**
I don’t have any formal arts training – in school and career, I’ve been drawn to words and books and social justice endeavors – but my mom was an artist, mostly a sculptor, and I grew up around a lot of art. I’ve been making prints since about 2013, often in Katie Gilmartin’s Chrysalis Studio in San Francisco, where we print on a Griffin etching press and use oil-based inks. Katie has been my teacher, mentor, and cheerleader for years, and I continue to learn from her. I’m also grateful to Laura Baisden for teaching me about reduction printing — and the beauty of the Vandercook Press -- during summer 2019 at Penland School of Craft.

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