Education
- BA (Hons) Fine Art Textiles (Woven and Printed Textiles) U.K. 1978
- M Arch, University of New Mexico 1994
Design Employment
- Design Architect: Albuquerque, NM, Hanover, MA and Sarasota FL 1994-2008
- Cooper Creek Designs: Jewelry Design and Manufacture 2013-2014
- Working Artist 2018- present
Memberships
- Artists in Cellophane since 2018: Selected by:
- MFA, Boston,
- National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC,
- Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
- Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
- Art Center of Sarasota
- Art Center Manatee
- Gulf Coast Artists’ Alliance
- National Collage Society
- Sarasota Surface Design Guild
- Surface Design America
- St Pete ARTWorks Gallery -- Exhibiting member of co-op
- Live Artfully, Manatee Art Center Retail Shop ,liveartfully.org/product-category/other/fiber-arts-textiles
- SPAACES Gallery Sarasota, FL
- Arts Alliance, Sarasota, FL
Exhibitions
Art Center Sarasota: 2018-2021 juried shows:
Open Season, New Views, Work of the Heart, Natural Selection, Made Fresh, Unbound, Uncharted, The Big Show:
- Honorable Mention: Made Fresh, Juror: Marianne Chapel (Teaches at Ringling College of Art and Design, Owner: SPAACES gallery)
- Award of Merit: The Big Show, Juror: Danny Odha ( art critic, editor and independent curator based in Florida, USA)
- Second Place: Unbound “Flotsam and The Little Fishes” Juror: Tom Stephens (BFA Ringling College of Art and Design)
- Uptown Gallery Sarasota, Dog Days of Summer 2019, Juror: Nathan Beard (St Petersburg Artist)
- Emerging Artists Showcase Curated Exhibition, Fogartyville Sarasota, FL February 2019
- Cider Press Café, Exhibition Jan 2020,"A New Decade" St Petersburg, FL, Curated by Margaret Juul
- Florida Textiles 2020. Juror: Cindy Bartosek (Curator and Fiber Artist, FL) March-August 2020 Florida CRAFT Art Gallery St Pete, FL
- Art Center Manatee, Member Show Dec 3-31, 2020 Juror: Watercolorist Diane Chencharick. "Far from Home" Honorable Mention
- National Collage Society 2020 - 23rd Annual Small Format Exhibition Cash Prize Winner
- Art Center Manatee, "Port Meadow" Honorable Mention 12 x 12 show Jan 7, 2021
- Art Center Manatee, "Trees and Sky with Figure" Honorable Mention Local Inspirations Show March 9, 2021
- St Pete ArtWORKS Featured Artist Feb-April 2020
- Las Lagunas Art Gallery "Textures, Patterns, Shapes or Forms" 2021 Online Exhibition published August 5, 2021
- St Pete ArtWORKS featured Artist Nov 2-28, 2021 "Anything You Can Imagine is Real"
Upcoming Schedule 2021-2022:
- Selected work to be published in 3rd edition of Salann Magazine (scheduled spring 2022)
- Artist Exhibition, Lexow Gallery, Unitarian Universalist Church, Sarasota FL. SHOW RESCHEDULED DUE TO COVID, NEW date: February 18-March 18, 2021. Please check with the Gallery to verify date and any COVID restrictions for visitors. CANCELLED DUE TO OMICRON 1/1/22
…secondary imagination that” dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Biographia Literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Biographia Literaria
Some Thoughts on Memory & Imagination
Early in the 19th century, Coleridge's discussion was on on how the mind perceives reality. Initially, he chooses to agree with David Hartley (David Hartley FRS was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology, 1705- 1757) that new thoughts are necessarily born out of existing ideas. However, in time, he moves away from this concept and posits that new realities emerge as people interact with nature. He asserts that human minds do not operate mechanically and are not dependent on an input of old thoughts for newer ideas to appear.
In psychology and the cognitive sciences, perception is the process of getting, interpreting, selecting, and organizing sensory information. It includes the collection of data from sense organs through to the interpretation made by the brain. ... Perception is a lot more than just "information coming in".
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Deliberate,
Assemblage 2020 objet trouve, silk fabric, dyed and polished cat skull, copper and glass beads size of base approx 6" x 6" x 2" |