About the Artist

Birthday Pitcher, Oil on Panel, 9x12, 2008

I took my first art class when I was 12, from an artist in my neighborhood, a watercolorist who had also taught my father and his friends when they were children. Mrs. Depenbrock told me that she would not teach me to draw but rather to see. I have held onto that notion for these many years. That’s why I did a painting this week of the inside of my kitchen cupboard. I was struck as I took out a pitcher for milk by the shadows and light in this funny little place I looked at every day, the three pitchers waiting, their serenity and solidity. In college at the University of Virginia, I concentrated on printmaking and photography, but also studied painting. My graduate degree from the University of Delaware is in printmaking and photography, all black and white. A trip to France in 1997 reminded me of everything that I love about color. Since then, I have been working on images of ordinary time, domestic moments, what I love about the things and people around me.