We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Currently based in the Biellese Alps in Northern Italy, I have become acutely aware of the annual rhythm of… Read more Transhumance: Counting Cows, Counting Beads – 2025 →
A large-scale art work utilizing beadwork, copper, painting, and epoxy resin on a wood panel. The work features beaded birds, a tree formed from antique copper embroidery plates, and a… Read more Neither Sow nor Reap, 2023 →
Early in 2019 I was thinking about a new series of beaded works, which I had titled Beaded Baroque. The original concept was to bring contemporary beading into conversation with… Read more The Antiquarian’s House, 2020 →
In Over Our Heads, original designs are beaded onto bonnets, caps, and headpieces. When selecting objects to work with, 4 pieces of women’s headgear seemed to fit together somehow. My… Read more Over Our Heads, 2020 →
Performative work, Sacred Mountain of Oropa, Biella, Italy, 2018
ArtFarm Pilastro 2019 (June 28-30). In this project, a rustic niche in an outbuilding of a 17th century farmhouse in the low country of the Italian province of Verona was… Read more Little Chapel for the Other Than Human – Summer 2019 →
Over a year in the making, this is the most ambitious work I’ve ever taken on. It is a chronicle, of sorts, of my adaptation to my new home city… Read more Where the Wind Took Me →
In 2017, I started incorporating beading into sculptural works. The resulting series of fishes reflects my personal study of the Mediterranean Sea and Italian lace-making, combined with a long-standing interest… Read more The Feast of the Fishes →