With
a background in quiltmaking and painting, I earned a Masters Degree of Art
with an emphasis on Textile Design. I became a dyer because I love color
as a pure energetic phenomenon and studied both sophisticated industrial
dyes, as well as slowly extracted native plant dyes. I became a weaver because
I am a dyer, not the reverse. I work without the traditional weaver’s
impulse to preserve tradition, and my studies are more about the process
of discovery than about the rituals of craft.
I taught weaving, dyeing
and art classes at both Coastline College and Mt. San Antonio College, and also
served as curator and designer of the annual Mt. SAC Emeritus Art Show. My group
has also demonstrated weaving and natural dyeing at the Huntington Library Botanic
Gardens and the Mission San Juan Capistrano.
In my involvement with dyeing and weaving, I have found creative freedom to combine
color, collage and application techniques, that are controlled by the structured
nature of weaving. The woven panels can either stand alone or be combined with
other pieces.
