I began studying drawing and painting at the University of Utah in the late 1960s, but by 1971, I was pulled toward weaving which became the language I would speak for the next five decades.

I've worked as a Navajo rug restorationist, fiber artist, a teacher, a juror, and a volunteer always grounded in a deep respect for handmade work and cultural continuity. My textile art has been shown in juried and invitational exhibitions across the country, including with the American Tapestry Alliance and in community-centered spaces in Santa Fe, Berkeley, and San Francisco. I've also served as a judge for the Santa Fe Indian Market, Spanish Market, and other cultural institutions in New Mexico, honoring both traditional and contemporary fiber work.

In the 1970s, I immersed myself in the language of textiles, studying weaving at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Fiberworks Center for Textile Arts in Berkeley, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. At Fiberworks, one of the leading centers of the American textile movement, I became an assistant, surrounded by artists redefining fiber as form. I also had the privilege of working as a weaver for two remarkable women: Gyöngy Laky, visionary artist and founder of Fiberworks, and Yoshiko Wada, textile scholar and founder of Kasuri Dyeworks.

Then, unexpectedly, in early 2023, I returned to drawing - nearly 50 years after setting the pencils down. It felt like coming back to a first love. I now work primarily in portraiture, drawing people from life in Santa Fe's cafés or from online images. My approach is quiet, attentive, and intimate -each portrait an attempt to capture not just how someone looks, but how it feels to be with them.

I live and work in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I continue both my restoration practice and my quiet exploration of each face as a landscape of soul.