​A practicing artist since 1982, I received my MFA in Fine Art Photography from Arizona State University in 1992. For over a decade, I taught photography at institutions including Arizona State University, College of the Atlantic, and the Oregon College of Art and Craft. I was also a participant in the Portland Grid Project, a systematic photographic exploration of the city, one square mile at a time.

Since 2011, I have ​worked in encaustic, acrylic​, cold wax, mixed media and printmaking, building on my foundation in fine art photography. Across these mediums, I am drawn to traces of human behavior—items cast off, discarded, appropriated—and the layered dialogue they create with time and place. This inquiry, rooted in my early career as an archaeologist, ​and my meditation practice and teaching, continues to shape my work. At its heart lies a persistent question: what persists?

My work has been featured in exhibitions across the United States and is included in personal and public permanent collections such as the Arizona State University Museum of Art, the Women in Photography International Archive, ​College of the Atlantic, and the Nevada Museum of Art. It was also featured in The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment (Nevada Museum of Art, Skira Rizzoli, 2012).

​I live among the trees in Portland, Oregon, delighting in the verdant landscape. I'm owned by my Labrador, Sadie, and am an avid gardener, cook, and walker. Married for 40+ years, I'm continually surprised and delighted by my spouse.